Golden age of rapid rail service envisioned for Florida

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This article highlights the current status of plans to connect Jax and Miami with Amtrak.

Passenger rail service was a big part of Florida's — and Brevard County's — past. And it looks as if paying customers will soon be rolling down the tracks that run along U.S. 1 through the county again.

Those first passengers will just be passing through, perhaps as early as 2015. But if all goes well, new railway stations could open in Titusville, Cocoa and Melbourne soon after that, allowing passengers to board or disembark on the Space Coast.

Could the golden age of rail travel be making a comeback?

Modern Florida — or the state's East Coast at least — was more or less invented by railroad magnate Henry Flagler.

full article: http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20131104/NEWS01/311030027/Golden-age-rapid-rail-service-envisioned-Florida?nclick_check=1