Sarasota Subdivision

Sarasota Subdivision
Overview
Other name(s)Parrish Subdivision
StatusSome segments still operating
OwnerSeaboard Air Line Railroad
Termini
Technical
Line length74 mi (119 km)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
ElectrificationNo
SignallingNone
Route map
Map

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Sarasota Subdivision (W Line) was a rail line that ran from the company's main line at Turkey Creek south to Palmetto, Bradenton, Sarasota, and Venice. The line was built in phases from 1901 to 1911.

History

Early years

Track being laid near Sixth Street in Sarasota in 1902

The Sarasota Subdivision was one of the first major expansions of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad network in Florida. All of Seaboard's lines in Florida prior to this were part of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad network, which the Seaboard acquired in 1900.

The Seaboard Air Line organized a subsidiary United States & West Indies Railroad and Steamship Company in 1901 to oversee construction of the line.[1] In 1901, construction commenced with the line branching off the Seaboard main line near Turkey Creek. It proceeded south through Durant, Willow, and Palmetto. It crossed the Manatee River via a long swing bridge into Bradenton, which was located just east of the current Desoto Bridge. From Bradenton the line continued south to downtown Sarasota. Here, some of the line ran along the former right of way of the Arcadia, Gulf Coast and Lakeland Railroad, an earlier unsuccessful railroad between Bradenton and Sarasota. The line also had a spur to Terra Ceia, as well as spurs into the central areas of Ellenton, Palmetto, and Bradenton (known then as Bradentown).

The Seaboard Air Line operated the line's first train to Sarasota on March 23, 1903. Upon completion, the United States & West Indies Railroad and Steamship Company was renamed the Florida West Shore Railway. By 1905, the line was extended east from downtown into Fruitville. In 1909, Seaboard fully acquired the Florida West Shore Railway subsidiary, ending the Florida West Shore Railway's separate corporate identity.

Extension to Venice

The Seaboard Air Line extended the line south to Venice in 1911 after being convinced by local socialite Bertha Honoré Palmer who owned land in Venice.[2][3] In Venice, the line connected with a small logging railroad operated by the Manasota Lumber Co.[4] The extension to Venice greatly benefited the city's economy. The railroad would be used by cadets and faculty of the Kentucky Military Institute's Venice campus for winter classes from 1933 to 1970. It also transported patients to Fred H. Albee's Florida Medical Center from 1932 to 1942 and transported goods and servicemen to Venice Army Air Field during World War II.[5] Another major customer on the line would be the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which was headquartered in Sarasota from 1927 to 1959 and then in Venice from 1959 to 1990.[2]

By 1925, at the height of the Florida land boom of the 1920s, Seaboard considered extending the line further south through Englewood along Lemon Bay to Placida to intercept with their Boca Grande Subdivision (the former Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway). The extension was never built.[2]

Later years

1970 Aerial image of Bradenton. The Seaboard Air Line's former bridge and right of way are visible just to the east of the Desoto Bridge

By the 1940s, the Seaboard Air Line removed the segment between the main line at Turkey Creek and Durant at the north end. The Seaboard's Valrico Cutoff, which was built in 1925 and crossed the Sarasota Subdivision at Durant, was then used to access the line and provided a slightly shorter route to Tampa.[2] By then, two local passenger trains were running the line daily in addition to a through freight train from Durant to Palmetto which ran six days a week.[3]

The SAL ran a section of its Silver Meteor, from Tampa to Bradenton, Sarasota and Venice on the SAL's Venice Division. The Silver Meteor offered through coaches and sleepers (no transfer needed) from New York City on this section.[6]

In 1967, the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) merged with their rival, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), who operated a nearly parallel route closer to the coast (the Tampa Southern Railroad). By April of 1968, the company abandoned the ex-SAL track within Downtown Sarasota and consolidated all service between Shade Avenue and 12th Street on the former Atlantic Coast Line tracks. All passenger traffic was also consolidated at the former Atlantic Coast Line passenger depot at Main Street and School Avenue.[7] Additionally, the SAL's swing bridge over the Manatee River was also removed in the wake of the merger in an effort to consolidate the company's operation on to a single bridge crossing (which also resulted in the removal of track between Palmetto Junction and Bradenton Junction). The Seaboard Coast Line then designated the remaining track north of the Manatee River as the Parrish Subdivision, and track south of the river became part of the Palmetto Subdivision (which also included the former Atlantic Coast Line route).[8] The Parrish Subdivision became a freight-only route after the merger.

Passenger operations from Tampa to Venice in the combined network was provided by the Champion once daily. The Champion ran from Tampa to Bradenton on the former Atlantic Coast Line route, but still ran on the remaining Seaboard Air Line track from Bradenton to Venice (except through downtown Sarasota).[9] Passenger service was discontinued in the Sarasota area after the Seaboard Coast Line's passenger operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971.

In 1970, the Parrish Subdivision became the original route of the Tropicana Juice Train which brought fresh orange juice in insulated boxcars from Bradenton to Kearny, New Jersey six days a week. Seaboard Coast Line would later reroute the juice train through Tampa on the Palmetto Subdivision (former Atlantic Coast Line) where it operates today.[10]

In 1980, the Seaboard Coast Line's parent company merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation. The CSX Corporation initially operated the Chessie and Seaboard Systems separately until 1986, when they were merged into CSX Transportation. In 1986, in an effort to further consolidate the network, track was abandoned between Durant and Willow. Though, the bridge over the Little Manatee River still stands with the tracks removed.[11]

Current conditions

Legacy Trail on the former Venice extension right of way at mile marker 898. The trail's mile markers use the same numbers as the railroad.

From Willow to Palmetto, the line is still in service as CSX's Parrish Spur. The former spur in Palmetto now connects the line to the Palmetto Subdivision main track (the ex-ACL line). The right of way of the Parrish Spur north and east of Ellenton is now largely owned by Florida Power and Light, and the Florida Railroad Museum operates excursion trains on this segment from Parrish to Willow.

South of Bradenton, CSX continues to operates the line as part of their Palmetto Subdivision from the north end of Tropicana Yard south to Oneco. The short line Seminole Gulf Railway took over the rest of the remaining line south of Oneco to Venice in 1987. Seminole Gulf abandoned the line from Venice to Palmer Ranch in 2004, and the line from there to Sarasota was abandoned in 2019.[12] The Legacy Trail now runs on the former right of way from the Venice Depot to Fruitville Road in Sarasota. The remaining right of way south of the Venice Depot is now home to the Venice Urban Forest.[13]

Historic stations

Venice Depot
Milepost[a] City/Location Station[14] Connections and notes
SW 828.6 Turkey Creek Turkey Creek junction with Seaboard Air Line Railroad Main Line
SW 832.8 Durant Durant junction with Seaboard Air Line Railroad Valrico Subdivision
SW 836.5 Lithia Lithia
SW 839.8 Boyette Boyette
Burnett's Crossing
SW 844.6 Balm Balm
SW 848.2 Wimauma Wimauma
SW 854.0 Willow Willow
Dickey
SW 860.2 Parrish Parrish
SW 863.8 Erie
SW 867.2 Terra Ceia Junction junction with Terra Ceia Spur (see below)
SW 869.1 Ellenton Junction junction with Ellenton Spur
SWB 869.3 Ellenton located on Ellenton Spur
SW 870.2 Palmetto Junction junction with Palmetto Spur
SWC 871.5 Palmetto Palmetto located on Palmetto Spur
SW 870.8 Manavista
SW 872.4 Bradenton Bradentown Junction junction with Bradentown Spur
SWD 873.8 Bradentown located on Bradentown Spur
SW 872.5 Manatee later renamed Bradenton-Manatee
junction with:
SW 875.8 Oneco
SW 877.7 Tallevast
Rardins
SW 883.4 Sarasota Sarasota
SW 886.4 Fruitville
SW 890.0 Bee Ridge
SW 894.9 Osprey
SW 900.1 Laurel
SW 901.3 Nokomis
SW 902.6 Venice Venice

Terra Ceia Spur

SWA 867.2 Terra Ceia Junction junction with Main Line
SWA 869.8 Rubonia
SWA 871.7 Terra Ceia

Notes

  1. ^ When first built, the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) gave the Sarasota Subdivision the milepost prefix W. After the 1967 merger, the Seaboard Coast Line (SCL) added S to the beginning of all ex-SAL lines, making the prefix SW.[3][8]

References

  1. ^ "Tampa Bay Trains - Florida West Shore Railway". tampabaytrains.com. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Turner, Gregg M. (December 1, 1999). Railroads of Southwest Florida. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing.
  3. ^ a b c Seaboard Air Line Railroad South Florida Division Timetable (1940)
  4. ^ "Lumber Co. List". The Florida Railroad History Website - Fernandina & Cedar Key. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Historical Overview of The Legacy Trail". Sarasota County Government. March 22, 2018. Archived from the original on April 7, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  6. ^ Seaboard Air Line timetable, April 30, 1967, Through Train Schedules; Tables 4 and 5
  7. ^ Evers, Jane (25 April 1968). "Silver Meteor Nears Last SAL Track Runs". The Bradenton Herald. p. 11. Retrieved 15 October 2024 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ^ a b Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Jacksonville Division and Tampa Division Timetable (1977)
  9. ^ Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Tampa Division Timetable (1970)
  10. ^ Harmon, Danny (9 November 2019). "Chasing the Juice Train". YouTube. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  11. ^ "The Sarasota Subdivision". Abandoned Rails. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  12. ^ "Seminole Gulf Railway, L.P. - Abandonment Exemption- in Sarasota County, Fla". Surface Transportation Board. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  13. ^ Venice Urban Forest
  14. ^ Florida Railroad Commission Annual Report (1913)
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