Seaboard–All Florida Railway
The Seaboard–All Florida Railway was a subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad that oversaw two major extensions of the system in the early 1920s to southern Florida on each coast during the land boom. One line extended the Seaboard's tracks on the east coast from West Palm Beach down to Fort Lauderdale and Miami, while the other extension on the west coast extended the tracks from Fort Ogden south to Fort Myers and Naples, with branches from Fort Myers to LaBelle and Punta Rassa. These two extensions were heavily championed by Seaboard president S. Davies Warfield, and were constructed by Foley Brothers railroad contractors. Both extensions also allowed the Seaboard to better compete with the Florida East Coast Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, who already served the lower east and west coasts of Florida respectively.
Inaugural Orange Blossom Special in Miami on January 8, 1927
Tri-Rail train on the former Seaboard-All Florida Railway in 2011
A CSX train on the Homestead Subdivision at the Bird Road grade crossing.
Remaining wooden pilings for the Seaboard Air Line's bridge over the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, Florida
Punta Rassa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,620 at the 2020 census, down from 1,750 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Pre-1906 photo of the "Barracks", also known as the Tarpon House, at Punta Rassa, Florida