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Community => Transportation, Mass Transit & Infrastructure => Topic started by: fsujax on March 10, 2010, 02:52:28 PM

Title: Demolished Train Stations
Post by: fsujax on March 10, 2010, 02:52:28 PM
Well, at least we didnt make this list!  Interesting to note that our Terminal building is a mini-Penn Station.

http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/06/22/11-beautiful-train-stations-that-fell-to-the-wrecking-ball/

Title: Re: Demolished Train Stations
Post by: LPBrennan on March 21, 2010, 03:58:51 PM
There were- and are- surprisingly few large stations in Florida. The state developed fairly late, of course, but, even so- there weren't that many large union stations here. Tampa Union Station still exists, and the 1926 ACL depot on Sligh Boulevard, though altered, is still there, if somewhat precariously. Pensacola had a gorgeous station, long gone now. Otherwise- mostly small structures, and most of them are gone. Even Miami's FEC depot was a rather plain two-story wooden building: FEC's publicity shots always featured the grand tower of the Dade County Courthouse in the background...
The Seaboard's Miami station is gone. In the Fifties and Sixties the ACL replaced older depots with modern glass and brick boxes- functional and at least an indication that the Coast line was still interested in providing good service. These were at St. Petersburg, Lakeland, Sanford, and Gainesville. The two depots at Savannah were replaced by the current one west of town, and Charleston's (actually North Charleston) dates to the same era.