Florida Central Railroad (1907–14)
Florida Central Railroad may refer to: * Florida Central Railroad (1868–1882), a railroad in Florida that became part of the Florida Railway and Navigation Company and later the Seaboard Air Line Railroad *Florida Central Railroad (1907–1914), a railroad in Florida and Georgia that became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad *Florida Central Railroad (current) The Florida Central Railroad Company is one of several Short-line railroad, short line railroads run by Regional Rail, LLC. It runs from downtown Orlando northwest to Apopka, Florida, Apopka and Tavares, Florida, Tavares with a branch from Toro ...

Florida Central Railroad (1868–1882)
The Florida Central and Western Railroad was a rail line built in the late 1800s that ran from Jacksonville west across North Central Florida and the part Florida Panhandle through Lake City and Tallahassee before coming to an end at Chattahoochee. The line was later part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad network from 1903 to 1967, and was primarily their Tallahassee Subdivision. The full line is still in service today and is now part of the Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad. History Construction and early years From Jacksonville west to Lake City, the Florida Central and Western Railroad was first built by the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad (not to be confused with the Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad, the current operator of the line). The Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad (FA&GC) was chartered on January 24, 1851 by Abel Seymour Baldwin (the namesake of Baldwin, Florida) and construction began at Lake City in 1857. During the Civil War, the rai ...
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Florida Central Railroad (1907–1914)
The Florida Central Railroad, headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia, constructed a line between that city and Fanlew, Florida in 1907 and 1908. The first ran from Thomasville to the lumber mill in Metcalf, Georgia, then on to Roddenberry. The Florida Central ran parallel to part of an Atlantic Coast Line Railroad line, crossing the ACL near the Florida/Georgia border and then running south to Stringers in extreme northeastern Leon County. From there the FC ran to Miccosukee The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians ( /ˌmɪkəˈsuki/, MIH-kə-SOO-kee) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Florida. Together with the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, it is one of ... and Wadesboro in Leon County, then to Capitola in Leon County (where it crossed the Seaboard Air Line Railroad), Cody in Jefferson County, terminating at Fanlew. In 1914, the Atlantic Coast Line purchased the Florida Central Railroad. References D ...
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