Post by ronturner on Nov 23, 2020 8:17:45 GMT 1
Looking ahead to when I can next get over to Florida I have been thinking of a trip to Key West. (My daughter is there just now on a pre Thanksgiving day break for her job in Orlando... Loving it.)
There once was a railway to Key West with an extension to CUBA. Built by Henry Flagler, often known as Flagler's Railway and today in almost every town or city on the East Coast of Florida there are Hotels, Universities, streets and buildings named after him.
There is a sort of railway renaissance in the USA at the moment, not so much is Florida as in some other states, but the Brightline company. (Now part of VIRGIN) is operating a high speed service from Miami to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and this is being extended using part of the old Flagler line to Orlando, and then they plan to go on to The Disney complex and perhaps Tampa.
If you know The Keys, you will know they are a series of islands connected by bridges over the sea often many miles long. Quite an achievement at the time.
If you are short of something to do at the moment, take a read of this article which describes something of the line, and how the railcars were put aboard ships at Key West to continue to CUBA.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-03-08-9803080050-story.html
There once was a railway to Key West with an extension to CUBA. Built by Henry Flagler, often known as Flagler's Railway and today in almost every town or city on the East Coast of Florida there are Hotels, Universities, streets and buildings named after him.
There is a sort of railway renaissance in the USA at the moment, not so much is Florida as in some other states, but the Brightline company. (Now part of VIRGIN) is operating a high speed service from Miami to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, and this is being extended using part of the old Flagler line to Orlando, and then they plan to go on to The Disney complex and perhaps Tampa.
If you know The Keys, you will know they are a series of islands connected by bridges over the sea often many miles long. Quite an achievement at the time.
If you are short of something to do at the moment, take a read of this article which describes something of the line, and how the railcars were put aboard ships at Key West to continue to CUBA.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-03-08-9803080050-story.html
