100th Anniversary: Trains that Went to Sea flaglerkeys100/islamorada: When the Czar of Russia was murdered by a bomb in 1881, a captain of the imperial guard decided it was time to leave Moscow...Piotr Demenscheff booked passage on a sailing vessel bound for America and became Peter Demens.” At the time a new railroad venture, ‘The Orange Belt’ started at the St. Johns River near the Jacksonville landing but lost interest and funding as it was swallowed by the wilds of 19th century Florida. After deciding that he could run the new railroad better than the former owners, Demens pointed his [newly acquired] steam engines, tracks and ties, toward the West coast of Florida where he believed he could make the Orange Belt [to Tarpon Springs] pay... The Orange Belt [later] became part of the Flagler system in 1899, renamed the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 02:35:51 +0000
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