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Speedway to Sunshine: The story of the Florida East Coast by Seth Bramson (JD)

Chip Savoye — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:53:14 +0000

Speedway to Sunshine is the history of one of America’s most exciting railroad lines, the Florida East Coast (FEC). It details how the FEC began and how it survived booms, busts, bankruptcy, sabotage, and hurricanes to become one of America’s most admired rail lines. Illustrated with 400 photographs, this fascinating book chronicles the FEC’s unrivaled rail-blazing events, from its inception, through the construction and destruction of the famous Key West Extension, to the line’s post-war metamorphosis.

There are extensive appendices on train names, schedules, passenger agents, locomotive rosters, mail service, freight equipment, passenger equipment, intrastate connections, and track layout. (JD)

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Florida’s Great Ocean Railway, Building the Key West Extension, Gallagher (JD)

Chip Savoye — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:17:44 +0000

The building of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway extension over water to Key West from 1905 to 1916 was s triumph of engineering and logistics. The Keys were remote and with little means of communication. The massive amounts of materials had to be moved with steam power. This book tells the story of the planners and their plan and its execution. It has 250 old photos, most of which have never been published before.

2003, first edition , dust cover jacket with no shelf wear JD

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Henry Flagler by David Chandler (W 30)

Gene Harmon — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:09:28 +0000

This biography and history of Flagler traces the development f Florida and the Florida East Coast Railway in 324 indexed pages with some B&W photos. Published in 1986 by Macmillan Publishing, this book is in very good used condition and has a paper jacket.

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Last Train to Paradise, Centennial Edition, by Les Standiford (W 1)

Gene Harmon — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:23:40 +0000

Like new with dust cover; Special Edition with 328 pages published by the Henry Flagler Museum, Henry Flagler and the spectacular rise and fall of the railroad that crossed an ocean. Florida East Coast RR, ISBN 978-0-9839378-0-7. No tears or marks.

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