Seaboard Air Line Railway

by Prince, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780253336958
• ISBN10: 0253336953
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

A thorough history of the Seaboard and its various predecessors and subsidiary lines.

Author Biography

Richard E. Prince was Assistant to the General Foreman in the steam back shop and roundhouse at L & N Railroad at South Louisville Shops.

Table of Contents

The Seaboard and the Gaston Roads
Portsmouth & Roanoke Rail Road	5	(3)
Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad	8	(2)
Raleigh & Gaston Railroad	10	(3)
Locomotives of the Seaboard and the Gaston Roads	13	(8)
Seaboard Air-Line
History Prior to 1900	21	(1)
Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line RR, Palmetto RR	22	(1)
Carolina Central Ry, Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford RR	23	(1)
Georgia, Carolina & Northern Ry and Other Railroads	24	(1)
The Seaboard of the Nineties	25	(2)
Richmond, Petersburg & Carolina RR	27	(1)
Steamboats
Baltimore Steam Packet Company --- The Bay Line --- Old Bay Line	28	(19)
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Company	47	(8)
Seaboard Tugs and Harbor Operations	55	(6)
Norfolk Country Ferries	61	(10)
Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad
Florida Central & Western Railroad Tallahassee Rail Road	71	(3)
Pensacola & Georgia Rail Road	72	(1)
Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central RR, Florida Central RR	73	(1)
Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile RR, FC&W RR	73	(1)
Florida Transit & Peninsular RR Florida Railroad	74	(2)
Atlantic, Gulf & West India Transit RR, Florida Transit RR, FT&P RR	76	(1)
Florida Railway & Navigation Company	76	(1)
Florida Central & Peninsular Ry --- The Florida Trunk Line	77	(2)
Locomotives of the FC&P RR, Atlantic, Suwannee River & Gulf Ry	79	(2)
Georgia & Alabama Railway --- Savannah Short Line
Americus, Preston & Lumpkin RR, Savannah, Americus & Montgomery Ry	81	(1)
Columbus & Florida Ry, Columbus Southern Ry	82	(3)
Seaboard Air Line Railway --- Florida and West India Short Line
History 1900 to 1915	85	(7)
Birmingham Extension, East & West RR, Cherokee Iron & RR Company	87	(2)
Carolina, Atlantic & Western Ry, Georgetown & Western RR	89	(3)
Seaboard Air Line Ry Company --- The Progressive Railway of The South
History Since 1915	92	(11)
Tampa & Gulf Coast RR	93	(1)
Charlotte Harbor & Northern Ry	94	(2)
Tampa Northern RR	96	(1)
Georgia, Florida & Alabama Ry	97	(4)
Seaboard Construction in Florida, The Seaboard Since 1930, SAL RR	101	(2)
Subsidiary Lines of the Seaboard
Macon, Dublin & Savannah RR	103	(9)
Gainesville Midland RR	112	(9)
Other Subsidiary Roads	121	(3)
Steam Locomotives
Seaboard Air-Line --- 1890 to 1899	124	(5)
Seaboard Air Line Ry --- 1900 to 1953	129	(67)
Roundhouses and Locomotive Back Shops	196	(72)
Seaboard Steam Trains
Passenger Service	200	(29)
Freight Service	229	(17)
Steam Locomotive Rosters and Diagrams
Locomotive Rosters	246	(16)
Locomotive Diagrams	262	(6)
Index	268