Florida Western and Northern Railroad

Florida Western and Northern Railroad

Amtrak station in Sebring, which was one of the original stations built on the line to serve the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Locale	Central Florida South Florida
Successor	Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

[ ] CSX's Auburndale Subdivision

former Florida Western and Northern Railroad (SAL) to Coleman SX 819.1 Auburndale SX 820.3 CSXA-Line SX 826.5 Winter Haven Florida Midland RailroadWinter Haven Branch SX 834.6 West Lake Wales Florida Midland RailroadLake Wales Branch former Seaboard Air Line Railroad to Bartow SX 847.0 West Frostproof US 27 SX 857.7 Avon Park SX 867.2 Sebring South Central Florida Express Kissimmee River SX 902.6 Mildred SX 908.9 Okeechobee South Central Florida Express SX 936.4 Indiantown SX 956.4 Delta CSX Miami Subdivision/ South Florida Rail Corridor

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. The line was beginning of Seaboard president S. Davies Warfield's ambitious plan to connect the Seaboard network to the South Florida region, which for almost thirty years had been the exclusive domain of the Florida East Coast Railway.

The Florida Western and Northern Railroad began in Coleman, where it branched off the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's main line (which is today the CSX S-Line). It proceeded south through wetlands of north Central Florida in a nearly straight line down to Auburndale, where it crossed the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's main line (the current CSX A-Line). From here, it continued south, passing just west of Winter Haven and Lake Wales before passing through Avon Park and Sebring. Its trajectory closely paralleled the Atlantic Coast Line's Haines City Branch, which at one point ran from Haines City to Everglades City.