Jacksonville station is an Amtrak train station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It serves the Silver Meteor and Silver Star trains as well as Amtrak Thruway buses to Lakeland. The station is located at 3570 Clifford Ln, Jacksonville, FL.
The front of the station
A window view from the Champion showing the platform and part of the station building from March 1979
The Silver Meteor arrives at the station where a CSX B30-7 is waiting in 1986.
The southbound Silver Star's two GE P42DC locomotives are being refueled by a fuel truck in March 2011.
The Silver Meteor is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and Miami, Florida. Introduced in 1939 as the first diesel-powered streamliner between New York and Florida, it was the flagship train of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) and one of the flagship trains of its successor, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL). The train was transferred to Amtrak when it took over intercity passenger rail service in 1971.
The Silver Meteor arriving in Palatka, Florida in 2023
Silver Meteor 1961 SAL timetable
SAL's shrouded 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive #865 with the Silver Meteor's St. Petersburg section, in the 1940s
The Silver Meteor passing through Odenton, Maryland in 2014.