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Transportation Company - Florida West Coast - Railroad
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Company NameFlorida West Coast
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded1987
CountryUnited States (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
Text Credit URLLink
Transportation Company - Florida West Coast - Railroad



Company History: FWCR launched in late 1987 as a spin-off of CSX. FWCR ran from a connection with CSX at Newberry, Florida to Wilcox and from Shamrock through Wilcox to Cheifland. This general area is west of Gainesville, Florida. Mileage was about 45.

Service began with a pair of GP18’s and a GP9. Since these were former Atlantic Coast Line routes, the FWCR saw fit to paint their locomotives purple and silver as a tribute. They also had about 80 freight cars with FWCR reporting marks. Traffic was forest products and grain, not what you might expect for Florida. The forest products and paper industries are reasonably large in Florida, especially in the north-central and panhandle regions. Long blocks of wood chip gons and pulp wood flats were common on the FWCR.

After several years, the lines west of Trenton were abandoned leaving just 13 route miles. In 2004, the FWC received permission to abandon all but a short segment of track in Newbury.
Brief History:
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
Item created by: gdm on 2019-12-14 08:25:48. Last edited by Lethe on 2020-05-07 00:00:00

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