Seaboard Air Line Railroad Time Tables: Route of the Steamliners
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company--Maps
Passenger trains
Brochure listing the Seaboard Airline Railroad time tables for 1948. The brochure illustrates the benefits of traveling to Florida by rail. The railroad dates back to 1832 when the Portsmouth & Roanoke Rail road was chartered in Virginia. The company was reorganized as the Seaboard & Gaston Railroad and the Raleigh & August Air-Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Air Line System, which expanded through the south. The Orlando rail station was razed in 1955. By the 1960s, the railroad was a major competitor of the Atlantic Coast Line and eventually merged with ACL in 1967. Amtrak took over operations in 1971.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Original 34-page brochure by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, 1948: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
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New York City, New York
Washington, D.C.
West Palm Beach, Florida
Silver Springs, Florida
Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, Homosassa, Florida
Cypress Gardens, Winter Haven, Florida
Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales, Florida
Highlands Hammock State Park, Sebring, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Birmingham, Alabama
Florida's Famed Underwater Fairyland...Silver Springs
Silver Springs (Fla.)
Springs--Florida
Amusement parks--Florida
Tourism--Florida
Brochure produced in 1959, promoting Silver Springs, Florida. It also shows a map of Florida showing pre-Interstate system roads as several other Florida roadside attractions. Silver Springs was originally settled by the Timucuans in the early 1500s. Although they were able to reclaim their territory after Spanish invasion, the Timucuans were ultimately succeeded by other tribes, such as the Seminoles. In the 1850s, Silver Springs began to attract tourists for steamboat rides. The park's popularity skyrocketed when the glass-bottom boat was invented in 1878.
Ray, Davidson and Ray
Original brochure by Ray, Davidson and Ray, 1959: Haynes Lithograph Company, Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Private Collection of Thomas Cook.
Haynes Lithograph Company
Cook, Thomas
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Silver Springs, Florida