List of Florida railroads

Further information: List of railroads incorporated in Florida

This is a list of railroads operating in the U.S. state of Florida.

Current railroads

Common freight carriers

• Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR) (GWI)
• AN Railway (AN) (GWI)
• Bay Line Railroad (BAYL) (GWI)
• CSX Transportation (CSXT)
• First Coast Railroad (FCRD) (GWI)
• Florida Central Railroad (FCEN)
• Florida East Coast Railway (FEC)
• Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad (FGA)
• Florida Midland Railroad (FMID)
• Florida Northern Railroad (FNOR)
• Georgia and Florida Railway (GFRR)
• Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad (JXPT) (Watco)
• Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) through subsidiary Georgia Southern and Florida Railway (GSF)
• Seminole Gulf Railway (SGLR)
• South Central Florida Express, Inc. (SCXF)

Private freight carriers

• CF Industries (CFIZ)
• Conrad Yelvington Distributors, Inc. (CNYX)
• The Mosaic Company (IMCX)
• Orlando Utilities Commission (OUCX)
• Perdue Farms (PFMX)
• Port Manatee Railroad (MAUP)
• Port of Palm Beach District (PPBD)
• Port of Panama City (PPC)
• United States Sugar Corporation (USSC)

Passenger carriers

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Legend
Sunset Limited to Los Angeles (suspended) Pensacola Crestview Chipley Central Time Eastern Time Tallahassee Madison Auto Train to Lorton Lake City Floridian to Chicago Silver Meteor to New York Suspended 2005 Jacksonville Palatka DeLand DeBary Sanford Sanford Lake Mary Longwood Altamonte Springs Maitland Winter Park AdventHealth Lynx Central Church Street Orlando Health/Amtrak Orlando Sand Lake Road Meadow Woods Tupperware Kissimmee Cocoa (planned) Poinciana Lakeland Tampa Winter Haven Stuart (planned) Sebring Okeechobee Mangonia Park West Palm Beach West Palm Beach Lake Worth Beach Boynton Beach Delray Beach Boca Raton Boca Raton Deerfield Beach Pompano Beach Cypress Creek Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale Airport Sheridan Street Hollywood Golden Glades Aventura Opa-locka Miami Metrorail Transfer Hialeah Market Miami Airport MiamiCentral
Services
SunRail Brightline Tri-Rail Amtrak only All stations are accessible

• Amtrak (AMTK)
• Brightline (BLFX)
• Florida Railroad Museum (FGCX)
• Gold Coast Railroad Museum (GCOX)
• Jacksonville Skyway
• Kirby Family Farm Train
• Miami Metromover and Miami Metrorail ^{[nb 1]}
• Seminole Gulf Railway (SGLR)
• Serengeti Express (located in Busch Gardens Tampa)
• Sugar Express (CHOX)
• SunRail (SRCX)
• Tradewinds & Atlantic Railroad
• TECO Line Streetcar
• Tri-Rail (TRCX)
• Walt Disney World
  • Walt Disney World Monorail and Walt Disney World Railroad ^{[nb 2]}
  • Wildlife Express Train

Private carriers

• Clay Springs and Apopka Railroad
• Ellaville, West Lake and Jennings Railroad
• Florida and Georgia Railway
• Peace River Phosphate Company
• Pensacola and Andalusia Railroad
• Starke and New River Railroad
• Union Cypress Company
• Winston Lumber Company

Never built

• Choctawhatchee and Northern Railroad

Defunct railroads

See also: List of Florida street railroads

Name	Mark	System [nb 3]	From	To	Successor	Notes
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1853–1869)		L&N	1853	1869	Pensacola and Louisville Railroad
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1898–1900)		L&N	1898	1900	Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1936–1941)			1936	1941	Ceased operations in 1941
Alabama and Florida Railroad (1986–1992)	AFLR		1986	1992	Alabama and Florida Railway
Alabama and Florida Railway	AF		1992	2011	Ceased operations in 2011
Alabama and Western Florida Railroad			1926	1939
Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad			1917	1936	Alabama and Florida Railroad (1936–1941)
Alabama, Florida and Southern Railroad			1910	1917	Alabama, Florida and Gulf Railroad
Alafia, Manatee, and Gulf Coast Railroad		SAL	1897	1906	Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway
Andalusia, Florida and Gulf Railway			1919	1925	N/A	[1]
Apalachicola Northern Railroad	AN		1903		Later served by the AN Railway, the line is abandoned.
Arcadia, Gulf Coast and Lakeland Railroad			1891	1893	Florida, Peninsular and Gulf Railroad
Arlington and Atlantic Railway		FEC	1892	1892	Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad
Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railway	A&SA, ASAB		1906	1993	Bay Line Railroad
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad	ACL	ACL	1902	1967	Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railway		FEC	1883	1899	Southeastern Railway
Atlantic and East Coast Terminal Company		ACL/ FEC	1905
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad	A&G	ACL	1866	1879	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company		SAL	1872	1881	Florida Transit Railroad
Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railroad		SAL	1893	1893	Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railway
Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railway		SAL	1893	1909	Seaboard Air Line Railway
Atlantic, Valdosta and Western Railway		SOU	1897	1902	Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, St. Johns River Terminal Company
Atlantic and Western Railroad		FEC	1888	1896	Florida East Coast Railway
Augusta, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad		SAL	1888	1891	Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad
Birmingham, Columbus and St. Andrews Railroad			1903	1926	Alabama and Western Florida Railroad
Blue Spring, Orange City and Atlantic Railroad		FEC	1878	1887	Atlantic and Western Railroad
Bradford Farms Railroad						Prison Spur between Raiford and Lawtey
Brooksville and Hudson Railroad			1902	1907	Tampa Northern Railroad
Brooksville and Inverness Railway		SAL	1925	1946	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Burlington Northern Inc.	BN		1980	1981	Burlington Northern Railroad
Burlington Northern Railroad	BN		1981	1996	Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway	BNSF		1996	1997	Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway
Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad		SAL	1891	1906	Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railway
Central of Georgia Railway	CG	CG	1904	1939	N/A
Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway		SAL	1906	1946	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Chattahoochee and East Pass Railway		ACL	1881	1884	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
DeLand and St. John's River Railroad		ACL	1886	1890	Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway
East Florida Railway		ACL	1880	1884	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
East Florida and Atlantic Railroad		SAL	1891	1893	Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
East and West Coast Railway	E&WC	SAL	1913	1945	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Fellsmere Railroad			1911	1924	Trans-Florida Central Railroad
Fernandina and Amelia Beach Railway		SAL	1883	1894	Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad		SAL	1880	1884	Florida Railway and Navigation Company
Florida Railroad		SAL	1853	1872	Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Company
Florida Railway			1905
Florida Railway and Navigation Company		SAL	1884	1888	Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Florida and Alabama Railroad			before 1914	1939	N/A	[1]
Florida, Alabama and Gulf Railroad			before 1911	1919	Andalusia, Florida and Gulf Railway	[1]
Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad		SAL	1851	1868	Florida Central Railroad
Florida Central Railroad		ACL	1907	1914	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Florida Central Railroad		SAL	1868	1882	Florida Central and Western Railroad
Florida Central and Gulf Railway		SAL	1916	1931	N/A
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad		SAL	1888	1903	Seaboard Air Line Railway
Florida Central and Western Railroad		SAL	1882	1884	Florida Railway and Navigation Company
Florida Coast and Gulf Railway		FEC	1892	1892	Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway
Florida, Georgia and Western Railway		SAL	1891	1895	Tallahassee Southeastern Railway
Florida Midland Railway		ACL	1883	1896	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Florida, Peninsular and Gulf Railroad			1893
Florida Southern Railroad		ACL	1892	1903	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Florida Southern Railway		ACL	1881	1892	Florida Southern Railroad
Florida Steinhatchee Railway
Florida Transit Railroad		SAL	1881	1883	Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad
Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad		SAL	1883	1884	Florida Railway and Navigation Company
Florida West Shore Railway		SAL	1903	1909	Seaboard Air Line Railway
Florida Western Railroad		SAL	1881	1882	Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
Florida Western and Northern Railroad		SAL	1924	1945	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Fort Myers Southern Railroad	FMS	ACL	1917	1987	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Fort White and Southern Railway			1896
Fort Wilderness Railroad	FWRR		1974	1980
Gainesville and Gulf Railway		SAL	1895	1907	Tampa and Jacksonville Railway
Gainesville, Ocala and Charlotte Harbor Railroad		ACL	1876	1881	Florida Southern Railway
Gainesville, Rocky Point and Micanopy Railway		SAL	1884	1895	Gainesville and Gulf Railway
Georgia and Florida RailNet	GFRR		1999	2005	Georgia and Florida Railway
Georgia and Florida Railroad	GFRR		1995	1999	Georgia and Florida RailNet
Georgia and Florida Railroad	G&F	G&F	1926	1951	Valdosta Southern Railroad
Georgia and Florida Railway	G&F	G&F	1906	1926	Georgia and Florida Railroad
Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad	GF&A	SAL	1927	1974	Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railway	GF&A	SAL	1901	1928	Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad
Georgia Pine Railway		SAL	1895	1901	Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railway
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad		SOU	1889	1895	Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
Green Cove and Midland Railway			1885	1892	Southwestern Railroad
Green Cove Springs and Melrose Railroad			1881	1885	Green Cove and Midland Railway
Gulf Coast Railway			1915	1921	N/A
Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railway (Deep Water Route)	DWR	SLSF	1911	1922	Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railway
Gulf Ports Terminal Railway		SLSF	1916	1927	Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad
Halifax and Indian River Railway		FEC	1891	1892	Florida Coast and Gulf Railway
Inland Lakes Railway			2005	2009
Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad		FEC	1892	1892	Jacksonville and Atlantic Railway
Jacksonville and Atlantic Railway		FEC	1893	1900	Florida East Coast Railway
Jacksonville Belt Railroad		SAL	1886	1888	Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Jacksonville Bridge Company		FEC	1888	1892	Florida Coast and Gulf Railway
Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Gulf Railway		SAL	1926	1943	N/A
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad		SAL	1869	1882	Florida Central and Western Railroad
Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway		FEC	1881	1892	Florida Coast and Gulf Railway
Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway		FEC	1892	1895	Florida East Coast Railway
Jacksonville and St. John's River Railway		ACL	1899	1899	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad		ACL	1899	1904	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway		ACL	1881	1899	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Jacksonville and St. John's River Railway
Jacksonville Terminal Company	JTCO	ACL/ FEC/ SAL/ SOU	1894	1978	N/A
Jaxport Terminal Railway	JXPT		1989	1996	Talleyrand Terminal Railroad
Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway			1888	1895	N/A
Kissimmee River Railway		SAL	1917		N/A
Lake Monroe and Orlando Railroad		ACL	1875	1879	South Florida Railroad
Lake Wimico and St. Joseph Canal and Railroad Company			1836	1841	N/A
Leesburg and Indian River Railroad		SAL	1881	1884	Florida Railway and Navigation Company
Live Oak and Gulf Railway			1894	1904	Suwannee and San Pedro Railroad
Live Oak and Perry Railroad		SOU	1903	1905	Live Oak, Perry and Gulf Railroad
Live Oak, Perry and Georgia Railroad			1995	1999	Georgia and Florida RailNet
Live Oak, Perry and Gulf Railroad		SOU	1905	1971	Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railway
Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railway	LPSG	SOU	1971	1993	Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railroad		ACL	1881	1884	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Live Oak, Tampa and Charlotte Harbor Railroad		ACL	1881	1884	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Louisville and Nashville Railroad	L&N, LN	L&N	1880	1983	Seaboard System Railroad
Macon and Florida Air Line Railroad		SOU	1884	1889	Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
Madison Southern Railway				1922	N/A
Marianna and Blountstown Railroad	M&BT, MBT		1909	1972	N/A
Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad	MSBP	SLSF	1924	1928	St. Louis – San Francisco Railway
Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railway	MSBP	SLSF	1922	1924	Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and Pensacola Railroad
Naples, Seaboard, and Gulf Railway		SAL	1926		Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Ocala Northern Railroad			1909	1915	Ocklawaha Valley Railroad
Ocala and Southwestern Railroad				1923	N/A
Ocklawaha Valley Railroad			1915	1922	N/A
Orange Belt Railway		ACL	1885	1893	Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad
Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic Railroad		ACL	1880	1886	DeLand and St. John's River Railroad
Orlando and Winter Park Railway		SAL	1886	1891	East Florida and Atlantic Railroad
Ormond Bridge Company		FEC	1887	1898	Florida East Coast Railway
Osceola and Lake Jesup Railway		SAL	1889	1891	East Florida and Atlantic Railroad
Palatka Bridge Company		FEC	1888	1893	Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway
Palatka and Indian River Railway		ACL	1881	1887	Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway
Patterson and McInnis Sawmill Railway	P&M			1940	Georgia-Pacific	Former logging railroad
Pelham and Havana Railroad			1906	1923	N/A
Peninsular Railroad		SAL	1878	1883	Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad
Pensacola Railroad		L&N	1877	1880	Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Pensacola, Alabama and Tennessee Railroad		SLSF	1892	1915	Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad		L&N	1881	1891	Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Pensacola and Fort Barrancas Railroad		L&N	1870	1882	Florida Western Railroad
Pensacola Electric Company			1906
Pensacola Electric Terminal Railway			1897	1906	Pensacola Electric Company
Pensacola and Georgia Railroad		SAL	1853	1869	Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, Tallahassee Railroad
Pensacola and Louisville Railroad		L&N	1868	1878	Pensacola Railroad
Pensacola and Mobile Railroad and Manufacturing Company		L&N	1861	1881	Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway		SLSF	1907	1917	Gulf Ports Terminal Railway
Pensacola and Perdido Railroad		SLSF	1869	1915	Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway
Pensacola Street Car Company			1882	1891	Pensacola Terminal Company
Pensacola Terminal Company			1891	1897	Pensacola Electric Terminal Railway
Plant System		ACL	1894	1902	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Plant City, Arcadia, and Gulf Railroad		SAL	1905	1909	Seaboard Air Line Railway
Port Inglis Terminal Company		SAL		1916	Florida Central and Gulf Railway
Port St. Joe Dock and Terminal Railway			1912	1929	N/A
St. Andrews Bay Railway and Terminal Company			1914
St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway		FEC	1889	1893	Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway
St. Augustine and Palatka Railway		FEC	1886	1889	St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway
St. Augustine and South Beach Railway			1886
St. Cloud and Sugar Belt Railway		ACL	1888	1893	South Florida Railroad
St. Johns Railway		FEC	1858	1893	Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway
St. Johns and Halifax Railway		FEC	1881	1888	St. Johns and Halifax River Railway
St. Johns and Halifax River Railway		FEC	1888	1893	Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Indian River Railway
St. John's and Lake Eustis Railroad		ACL	1896	1902	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
St. John's and Lake Eustis Railway		ACL	1879	1896	St. John's and Lake Eustis Railroad
St. Johns River Terminal Company	SJRT	SOU	1901
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway	SLSF	SLSF	1928	1980	Burlington Northern Inc.
Sanford and Everglades Railroad		ACL	1908	1913	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Sanford and Indian River Railroad		ACL	1881	1893	South Florida Railroad
Sanford and Lake Eustis Railroad		ACL	1885	1890	Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway
Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad		ACL	1893	1903	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway		ACL	1876	1902	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Seaboard Air Line Railroad	SAL	SAL	1946	1967	Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Seaboard Air Line Railway		SAL	1900	1945	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Seaboard-All Florida Railway		SAL	1925	1945	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad	SCL		1967	1983	Seaboard System Railroad
Seaboard System Railroad	SBD		1983	1986	CSX Transportation
Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Railroad		ACL	1875	1901	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Silver Springs and Western Railroad
South Central Florida Railroad	SCFE		1990	1994	South Central Florida Express, Inc.
South Florida Railroad		ACL	1879	1893	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
South Florida and Gulf Railroad			1914	1918	N/A
South Georgia Railway		SOU	1900	1971	Live Oak, Perry and South Georgia Railway
Southeastern Railway		FEC	1899	1902	Florida East Coast Railway
Southwestern Railroad			1892	1899	N/A
Standard and Hernando Railroad		SAL	1903	1916	Florida Central and Gulf Railway
Starke and Sampson City Railroad		SAL	1890		Atlantic, Suwannee River and Gulf Railway
Suwannee and San Pedro Railroad			1900	1905	Florida Railway
Tallahassee Railroad		SAL	1834	1870	Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad
Tallahassee, Perry and Southeastern Railway		SAL	1905	1909	Seaboard Air Line Railway
Tallahassee Southeastern Railway		SAL	1895	1906	Tallahassee, Perry and Southeastern Railway
Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad		SAL	1913	1976	Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Tampa and Gulf Coast Railway		SAL	1909	1913	Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad
Tampa and Jacksonville Railway		SAL	1906	1927	Jacksonville, Gainesville and Gulf Railway
Tampa Northern Railroad	TN	SAL	1906	1946	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Tampa, Peace Creek and St. John's River Railroad		ACL	1878	1881	Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway
Tampa Southern Railroad	TAS	ACL	1917	1982	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Tampa Terminal Company		SAL	1906
Tampa and Thonotosassa Railroad		ACL	1893	1901	Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Tampa Union Station Company		ACL/ SAL	1910	1968	N/A
Tavares, Apopka and Gulf Railroad		SAL	1881	1890	Tavares and Gulf Railroad
Tavares and Gulf Railroad	TV&G	SAL	1890	1969	Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Tavares, Eustis & Gulf Railroad	TE&G		2011	2017
Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad		SAL	1881	1891	Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad		SAL	1882	1888	Augusta, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad
Trans-Florida Central Railroad			1924	1953	N/A
Tropical Florida Railroad		SAL	1881	1883	Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad
United States and West Indies Railroad and Steamship Company		SAL	1900	1903	Florida West Shore Railway
Valdosta Southern Railroad	VSO		1951	1972	N/A
Valdosta Southern Railway		G&F	1895	1907	Georgia and Florida Railway
Watertown and Northern Railway
West Coast Railway		SOU	1900	1924	South Georgia Railway
West India Fruit and Steamship Company	WIF		1946	1961	N/A
Western Railway of Florida			1886	1892	Southwestern Railroad	Leased the Green Cove and Midland Railway
Winston and Bone Valley Railroad		ACL	1892	1909	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Withlacoochee Railway		G&F	1893	1895	Valdosta Southern Railway
Yalaha and Western Railroad		ACL	1900	1902	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Yellow River Railroad		SAL	1887	1906	Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Notes

1. Under same management and with a walking-distance transfer between the two.
2. Under same management and with a walking-distance transfer between the two.
3. This is one or more of the Class I railroads that the railroad became part of, if any.

References

1. Turner, Gregg (2003). A Short History of Florida Railroads. Arcadia Publishing. p. 88. ISBN   978-0-7385-2421-4.