Rail Freight Carriers in

Florida

A double stack container train on the Florida East Coast Railway at St Augustine.
Locomotives 821, 820 and 802 are GE ES44C4 4400hp Co-Co diesel electrics

Long Haul Railways

CSX, Norfolk Southern

Regional & Local Railways

• Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway Pensacola (interchange with CSX) via Atmore AL to destinations in AL and MS. Total length of line about 339 miles (546 km)
• AN Railway Chattahoochee (interchange with Florida Gulf & Atlantic) to Port St Joe; about 119 miles (191 km)
• Bay Line Railroad Panama City (interchange with R J Corman Switching) via Rambo to destinations in AL and GA. Total length of line about 182 miles (293 km)
• Conrad Yelvington Distribution have numerous rail connected distribution centres in Florida, at many of which they perform their own switching (Website contains no details of rail operations)
• First Coast Railroad Fernadina via Yulee (interchange with CSX) and Kingsland GA (interchange with St Marys Railroad) to Seals GA; about 46 miles (74 km)
• Florida Central Railroad Orlando (interchange with CSX) via Toronto (branches to Winter Garden and Forest City) and Tavares (branch to Sorrento) to Umatilla; total length of line about 68 miles (109 km)
• Florida East Coast Railway Jacksonville (interchange with CSX, Jacksonville Port Terminal and Norfolk Southern) via Cape Canaveral Junction (branch to Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base; see also Port Canaveral Rail Extension), Fort Pierce (interchange with United States Sugar) and West Palm Beach (interchange with CSX) to Port of Miami; total length of line about 396 miles (637 km)
• Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad Baldwin (interchange with CSX) via Watertown (interchange with Norfolk Southern), Greenville (interchange with Georgia & Florida), Tallahassee (branch to Attapulgas GA, where there is interchange with CSX), Chattahoochee (interchange with AN Railway) to Pensacola (interchange with CSX); total length of line about 420 miles (676 km)
• Florida Midland Railroad three separate lines:
  • West Lake Wales Branch West Lake Wales (interchange with CSX) to Frostproof, about 17 miles (27 km)
  • Wildwood Branch Wildwood (interchange with CSX) to Orange Home, about 4 miles (6 km)
  • Winter Haven Branch Winter Haven (interchange with CSX) to Gordonville, about 7 miles (11 km)
• Florida Northern Railroad two separate lines:
  • Newberry Branch Newberry (interchange with CSX) to Crystal River Energy Complex, about 58 miles (94 km)
  • Ocala Branch Zuber via Ocala (interchange with CSX) to Candler, about 29 miles (46 km)
• Georgia & Florida Railway Foley via Perry (branch to Springdale), Greenville (interchange with Florida Gulf & Atlantic) and Quitman GA to destinations in GA
• Jacksonville Port Terminal Railroad switching services in the Talleyrand Docks & Terminal, Jacksonville, interchanging with Florida East Coast. Total length of line about 10 miles (16 km)
• Mosaic Company owns and operates the line from an interchange with CSX near Streamsong Resort to Four Corners Mine (Website contains no information relating to railway)
• Orlando Utilities Commission performs some switching at its Curtis H Stanton Energy Center, interchanging with CSX; however, most of the rail traffic arriving at the plant is formed of block trains which do not require switching (Website contains no information relating to railway)
• Port Manatee Railroad switching railway in Port Manatee, interchanging with CSX. Total length of line about 7 miles (11 km)
• Port of Palm Beach switching railway in Port of Palm Beach, interchanging with Florida East Coast. Total length of line about 5 miles (8 km)
• R J Corman Switching switching services at RockTenn, Panama City, interchanging with Bay Line
• Seminole Gulf Railway two separate lines:
  • Oneco (interchange with CSX) to Sarasota
  • Arcadia (interchange with CSX) via Fort Myers to Vanderbilt Beach
  Total length of line about 95 miles (153 km)
• United States Sugar Corporation separately operated but connected networks:
  • South Central Florida Express Sebring (interchange with CSX) via Clewiston (interchange with private network) and Keela (branch to Okeelanta), Bryant (interchange with private network) and Marcy (interchange with CSX) to Fort Pierce (interchange with Florida East Coast); total length of track about 162 miles (260 km)
  • Private network extensive network of branches connecting sugar plantations to refineries and interchange with South Central Florida Express, arranged in two groups: about 38 miles (61 km) around Clewiston, and about 36 miles (58 km) around Bryant
• Watco Rail Services switching services at Ascend, Pensacola, interchanging with CSX