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Seaboard Rail System
Waters & The Florida Seaboard Rail System
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My grandmother, Vida B. Waters, came to Alachua in 1914. Leland Waters, Charlie Waters, and Dave S. Waters, all worked in the railroad business. After time, they went into business for themselves, and they all did a lot for the City of Alachua. Per Vida Waters, there used to be three railroad stations here in Alachua, for the trains. My husband, David, was an agent for the Seaboard, and his brother was an agent for the Coast Line. And another brother was an agent for one of those little short trains they had over here on this side of town. All three brothers worked for a different line. There was the Seaboard Air Line Railway & Seaboard Coast Lines. Upon completion to Gainesville of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway in May 1884, citizens from the former county seat at Newnansville were among those who moved to the present site of Alachua which was near the railroad. The city is located in a productive farming area. The Bellamy Road, a national highway from St. Augustine to Pensacola authorized in 1824, originally passed near the northeast city boundary. The post office was established April 30, 1887. The city was incorporated April 12, 1905. The town of Newnansville was no longer a center for activity and declined for the next 30 years. In 1884 when the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad bypassed it about a mile to the south, the settlers moved their businesses closer and a new town, Alachua, began as a shipping point. Newnansville slowly became a town of the past as it gave way to this new town.
Alachua Depot 1975
Alachua Depot 1974
Seaboard Air Line employees gathered around steam engine Peggy in the early 1910's. The engine ran for branch line from Starke to Wanee 1890s.
High Springs Depot
High Springs Depot
Atlantic Coast Line headquarters, Jacksonville, Florida (ACL or Coast Line)
1920's Post Card
See Seaboard Depot pictures below
Seaboard Coast Line
Seaboard Coast Line hat
Locomotive engine #333 of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company 1940
Locomotive engine number 2501 in 1930
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company diesel locomotive #3000 - Jacksonville 1959
View of Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company diesel locomotive #3048 - Jacksonville 1959
Seaboard Air Line Engine 216 west of Tallahassee 1940s
Seaboard Air Line Engine 224 west of Tallahassee
Locomotive engine number 2501 - 1930
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company engine #546 - Lloyd
Some pictures from State files - thank you State Archives of Florida
Dunnellon bridge on State Road 45 over the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad 1981
Dunnellon bridge on State Road 45 over the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad 1981
Seaboard Air Line
Seaboard Air Line Conductor hat
Seaboard Key
Jacksonville above
Seaboard Coast Line Lakeland
Seaboard Air Line_SAL construction
Trolley car after a collision with a Seaboard Air Line Railway train 1936
Railroad car carrying an automobile 1937
Charley E. Johns visits with a Seaboard engine crew 1953
Seaboard Mail Car
Seaboard Coast Line Depot Anthony_1938 Railroad mail drop-off bag
Seaboard Oil Company airport service station 1949
ChazzCreations
PO BOX 1909
POST FALLS, ID 83877