What's So Big About JACKSONVILLE Terminal?

[Ocklawaha]

How about within a single generation, want to see where we were, and where we are, under the highway leadership of the last 50 years? What could you and I have seen walking in the door of the great station, and recording the announcements? If we could only go back with a digital video recorder, hind-sight being 20 x 20. Do you REALLY think Amtrak is going to continue to ignore THIS market? HA! Mark my words, it's coming back big time, but as a city we must either be there with the terminal, or lose it all...

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Train Name /Railroad /Between Cities 
       

Camellia, The PRR; RF&P; SAL New York - Washington - JACKSONVILLE / Wildwood - Miami / Tampa - Sarasota -Venice 

Carolina Special NYC; Southern Chicago - Cincinnati - Ashville - JACKSONVILLE

City of Miami IC; C of GA; ACL; FEC; Chicago - Memphis - Birmingham - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami
   
Coast Line Florida Mail RF&O; ACL Washington - Charleston - Savannah - JACKSONVILLE   


Daylight Express FEC JACKSONVILLE - East Palatka - Daytona Beach - Miami 

Dixie Flagler C&EI; L&N;NC&StL; ACL; FEC Chicago - Nashville - Atlanta - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami   

Dixie Flyer C&EI; L&N; NC7Stl; CofGA; AC; FEC Chicago - JACKSONVILLE / Daytona Beach - Miami / Orlando - Tampa - St. Petersburg   

Dixie Limited CE&I; L&N; NC&StL; CofGA; ACL; FEC Chicago - Atlanta - JACKSONVILLE / Daytona Beach - Miami / Orlando - Tampa

Dixie Limited CE&I; L&N; NC&StL; ACL; FEC  Chicago - JACKSONVILLE   

East Coast Express (w) FEC JACKSONVILLE - East Palatka - Daytona Beach - Miami   

East Coast Champion  PRR; RF&P; ACL; FEC  New York - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami 


Everglades RF&P; ACL Washington - Charleston - JACKSONVILLE 

Flamingo, The L&N; CofGa; ACL; FEC Cincinnati - Louisville - Atlanta - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach  - Miami   

Florida Mail RF&P; ACL Washington - JACKSONVILLE 


Florida Special (w) PRR; RF&P; ACL; FEC New York - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami   


Gulf Coast Special, The ACL; New York - Washington - Savannah - JACKSONVILLE / Orlando - Tampa / Gainesville - Ocala - Trilby - St. Petersburg.

Gulf Wind, The L&N; SAL  New Orleans - Tallahassee - JACKSONVILLE     

Gulf Stream FEC JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami 

Havanna Special PRR; RF&P; ACL; FEC New York - Washington - JACKSONVILLE / Daytona Beach - Miami / Tampa - St Peterburg


Kansas City-Florida Special StLSF; Southern; FEC Kansas City - Birmingham - Atlanta - Macon - Jessup - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami

Miamian PRR; RF&P; ACL; FEC New York - Washington - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami

New Royal Palm (w) NYC; Southern; FEC Chicago - Cincinnati - Atlanta - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach -Miami

Orange Blossum Special (w) PRR; RF&P; SAL New York - Washington - JACKSONVILLE / Ocala - Miami / Tampa - St Petersburg


Palmetto PRR; RF&P; ACL New York - Washington - Wilmington - Augusta - Savannah - JACKSONVILLE


Palmland PRR; RF&P; SAL New York - Washington - JACKSONVILLE / Ocala - Miami / Tampa - St Petersburg



Ponce De Leon NYC; Southern; SAL Chicago - Detroit - Cleveland - JACKSONVILLE - Orlando - St Petersburg

Royal Poinciana (w) FEC Jacksonville - Miami   

Seaboard Passenger Mail Express, The SAL; Chattahoochee - Tallahassee - JACKSONVILLE

Seminole IC; CofGa, ACL; FEC Chicago - St Louis - JACKSONVILLE - Gainesville - Tampa - St Petersburg 

Silver Meteor, The PRR; RF&P; SAL New York - Washington - JACKSONVILLE  / Ocala - Miami / Tampa - St Petersburg - Venice   

Silver Star, The (w) PRR; RF&P; SAL New York - Washington - Richmond - Raleigh - JACKSONVILLE  Ocala -Miami / Tampa - St Petersburg 

Skyland Special Southern Ashville - Charlotte - JACKSONVILLE   


South Wind, The PRR; L&N; ACL; FEC Chicago - Nashville - Montgomery - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami   

Southland, The (East Coast) PRR; L&N; CofGa; ACL; FEC Chicago - Cincinnati - Atlanta - Albany - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach  - Miami   

Southland, The (West Coast) PRR; Wabash; L&N; ACL Chicago - Detroit - Cincinnati - Atlanta - JACKSONVILLE - Tampa -St Petersburg   

Sunland, The RF&P; SAL Washington; Raleigh - JACKSONVILLE / Ocala - Tampa   


Sunnyland, The StLSF; Southern St Louis - Memphis - Birmingham - JACKSONVILLE 


Tidewater, The SAL; Norfolk - Hamlet - Savannah - JACKSONVILLE

Tire Saver, The FEC; JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach - Miami
     
Vacationer (w) PRR; RF&P; ACL; FEC New York - Washington - Savannah - JACKSONVILLE - Daytona Beach  - Miami   

West Coast Champion PRR; RF&P; ACL New York - JACKSONVILLE - Gainesville - Leesburg - Trilby - St Petersburg

Just thought you'd like the see it the way it can be again!

OCKLAWAHA

[deathstar]

I hope like hell a bunch of people get together and light a fire under our city leaders asses, and get something going! Jacksonville isn't improving, its going to the you know what! I'm only 26 years old, I have no idea what it must of been like, but from being a member of these forums for awhile, and a long time viewer before that, my frustrations match everyone else!

[Ocklawaha]

The ACL "Montgomery Champion" in this scene has just cleared Waycross in is coming home.


Deathstar, "Welcome aboard" as the steps to these trains always said. What was amazing in Jacksonville was the amount of switching that went on, with trains of different northern railroads (like the Frisco or Louisville and Nashville) rolling into town, then rolling south for both coasts, as part of one of the FEC - ACL or other trains. The fact that we attracted trains from the Frisco, Illnois Central, Louisville and Nashville or Pennsy, says volumes about the market here. These railroads didn't even get close to Jacksonville, yet they sent flagship trains running the length of their own systems only to end up here! Often these single through trains were the effort of 3 or 4 railroads.

At one time we captured the "busiest station in the world" title (during the great Florida Land boom of the 1920's), then went on to build the worlds largest railway express station. The railway express station record stood until JTA tore down the buildings for the new bus garages. I'm certain we also held some records for the amount of mail moved or transfered at a US Railway Post Office facility. As a hub we are awesome, and with Amtrak plans to return to frequent service to Florida, we better get moving.

OCKLAWAHA