First Coast Railroad

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First Coast Railroad
Reporting marks FCRD
Locale Florida and Georgia, United States
Dates of operation 2005 – present
Track gauge ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters

The First Coast Railroad (AAR reporting mark FCRD) is a railroad in Florida and Georgia, owned by Rail Link (Genesee and Wyoming). It was founded in April 2005 to lease 32 ex-Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) miles abandoned by CSX. Its lines stretch east from Yulee to Fernandina Beach and north from Yulee to Seals, with a connection at Yulee to CSX to Jacksonville. The north-south line, formely the SAL main line before it was abandoned by the combined Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in favor of the ex-Atlantic Coast Line Railroad main line to the west, connects to the St. Marys Railroad at Kingsland. The line is abandoned north of Seals.

[edit] References

  • King, Leo (June 2006). "First Coast's First Days". Trains 66 (6): pp 34-39. ISSN 0041-0934.



Current (operating) Class III railroads of the United States (Class I railroad - Class II railroad)
Historic (fallen flag) Class III railroads of the United States

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