AAF Files Court Documents For Extension To Jacksonville

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For those who don't know, here are the railroads, railroads past and railroads future in Central Florida.
YELLOW are abandoned railroads with significant segments of right-of-way intact, in state or county hands, or largely usable (though some do have built over sections but nothing a few curves couldn't fix)

I left out the 'DINKY' line that ran from Oviedo to Winter Park, as there is really nothing left of it and it's almost 100% built over. You can see a small piece of the R/W on the map where the line from Sanford (the more eastern one) to Oviedo, doubles back toward Winter Park. I also left off the Sanford/Mount Dora line as it is going to be under a freeway.

RED are the current railroads, FEC/CSX/NASA/SUNRAIL/FLORIDA CENTRAL The cropping didn't end right, but consider that from right to left:
1.) the red lines near the bottom of the photo continue on to Miami (red FEC/AAF)
2.) the yellow line continued to south of Lake Okeechobee
3.) the red line moving to the bottom/left ends in St. Petersburg

*) Both red lines ending at the top of the page go on to Jacksonville and beyond, fanning out in every direction from JAX.

TEAL are the planned railroads, both NASA/Port Canaveral and AAF

** Add to this the FACT that the post-modern station (circa 1960 and closed in 3 years) at Cocoa-Rockledge still stands, it is modern, all brick, huge parking lot, and sits about where the word ROCKLEDGE passes through the red line on the map.
Note how any trains moving from Miami to Orlando/Jax or the reverse, would virtually have to use this station for transfers. This is why I keep saying, Cocoa can chill, it's coming baby!

Add to this several broad electric transmission lines from Daytona to the Oviedo Area, highway medians, etc.. and there are lots of options.

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