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Showing posts with label Transportation history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transportation history. Show all posts
Saturday, April 27, 2024

SOFLA transportation - Tri-Rail applause, troubles and a Brightline debut

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  Tri-Rail commuter train at MiamiCentral Station Photo:Phillip Pessar/Miami 02/07/24 See license info below *   By Jane Feehan As of this p...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

All aboard the Orange Blossom Special to Florida - a movable hotel

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  Postcard 1939 - Orange Blossom Special Public Domain By Jane Feehan Some called visitors to Florida during the 1920s “the sunshine seeke...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Lumber schooners delivered what railroads could not to Fort Lauderdale

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  Abandoned lumber schooners, Miami 1926 State Archives of Florida By Jane Feehan   “A new era in water transportation for Fort Lauderdale” ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

South Florida's first automobiles: who drove what and when?

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First car in Miami  C.H. Billings, 1899 a Locomobile  State  of Florida Archives By Jane Feehan Automobiles soared in popularity across th...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Aeromarine Airways launches flying boat service in 1920s: breakfast in Miami, lunch in Nassau, dinner in Palm Beach?

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  Flying boat used by Aeromarine in 1920 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan Flying boats. Flying luxury boats. That’s ho...
Friday, January 1, 2021

Traveling in Florida before highways: age of the stern wheel

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  Lillie and the Roseada Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Canals, lakes, and rivers comprised key transportation networks throughout So...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Commercial Boulevard Bridge to Lauderdale-By-The-Sea once scorned, now vital

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  Commercial Boulevard Bridge Florida State Archives/Dept of Commerce By Jane Feehan The beach town of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea, and particular...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Carl Fisher links Florida to the nation with Dixie Highway

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Dixie Highway opening in Dania 1915 Florida State Archives By   Jane Feehan Miami Beach developer and automobile industry pioneer, Carl G...

Tampa to Miami on the Tamiami Trail

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1923 Trailblazers Florida State Archives/Florida Memory   By J ane Feehan The Tamiami Trail, linking Tampa and Miami, opened to great fanfar...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Miami's trolley system challenged by hurricanes, cars and parades 1906-1940

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Trolley car in downtown Miami 1926   State Archives of Florida By Jane Feehan Trolley systems had their ups and downs in Miami beginning ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

First U.S. high-speed hydrofoil sails from Port Everglades

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US Navy hydrofoil PHM-1Pegasus 1970 (not HS Denison) Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan The nation’s first oceangoing hydrofoil, the H....
Monday, October 21, 2013

Miami tops Los Angeles in cars per capita in 19...

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By Jane Feehan The Automobile Manufacturers Association reported in 1940 that Miami led the nation among major cities in the number of...