Jacksonville Terminal

Company History: The Jacksonville Terminal was the union station serving Jacksonville, Florida. The terminal opened in 1919 and was jointly owned by Atlantic Coast Line, Florida East Coast, Georgia Southern & Florida (later part of the Southern Railway System,) Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway. JT used a fleet of about a dozen 0-6-0’s from a variety of builders. Steam was replaced with seven NW2’s and three SW900’s. These were delivered in blue and orange paint, in a scheme quite reminiscent of C&EI’s F unit scheme. This paint scheme was later simplified to solid orange to save on upkeep. The 1963 strike of Florida East Coast reduced traffic to the terminal and in 1964 Southern Railway pulled out. By the late 60s, FEC had briefly resumed, and then ended passenger service and ACL and SAL had merged and simplified their Jacksonville operations. At that point, JT sold off their locomotives. Amtrak last served the terminal in 1974.

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