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3 unusual facts about Seaboard Air Line Railroad


Creedmoor, North Carolina

The old Seaboard train depot building still stands at its location on Elm St. making it over 120 years old.

John Skelton Williams

John Skelton Williams (July 6, 1865 - November 4, 1926) was a United States Comptroller of the Currency from 1914 to 1921 and the first president of the Seaboard Air Line Railway.

Seaboard Air Line Railroad

The complex corporate history of SAL began on March 8, 1832, when its earliest predecessor, the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad was chartered by the legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina to build a railroad from Portsmouth, Virginia to the Roanoke River port of Weldon, North Carolina, shortcutting a long, three-sided water route.


Florida State Road 710

In some places, the route is also known as Warfield Boulevard (named after S. Davies Warfield, the president of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad who originally built the adjacent railroad tracks).

Florida Western and Northern Railroad

The Florida Western and Northern Railroad was a railroad line built by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1925 running from Coleman, Florida (south of Ocala) all the way to West Palm Beach via Auburndale and Sebring (near Lake Okeechobee), a distance of over 200 miles.


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