Florida Railroad Museums (2026): A Complete Guide
Last revised: October 6, 2026
By: Adam Burns
Florida’s railroad museums are depots the passengers left, and a handful of cars and locomotives that stayed. Boca Raton has the 1930 Florida East Coast station and two Seaboard streamliner cars. Winter Garden has the 1913 Tavares & Gulf depot and a collection of dining-car china. Palm Beach has Whitehall, Henry Flagler’s house, and his private car No. 91. Miami’s Gold Coast Railroad Museum has the presidential car Ferdinand Magellan and Florida East Coast Pacifics No. 153 and No. 113. Parrish is the Florida Railroad Museum, on a piece of the Seaboard. Fort Myers keeps Atlantic Coast Line 0-6-0 No. 143 in Lakes Park. Milton keeps the 1909 Louisville & Nashville depot. Plant City keeps the union depot where the Coast Line and the Seaboard crossed.
Among its collection of historic equipment, the Florida Railroad Museum also offers excursions, which are typically pulled by GP7 #1835, a former U.S. Army locomotive. Florida Railroad Museum photo.
Hours, and which building is open to walk through, move with the season and with ownership. Confirm the day before you drive.
On this page: At a glance · Florida railroads · Boca Raton · Winter Garden · Palm Beach · Miami · Parrish · Fort Myers · Milton · Plant City · Related reading
At a glance
| Place | Town | What it is known for | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boca Express Train Museum | Boca Raton | 1930 Florida East Coast depot. Seaboard dining car 6113 and lounge 6603, Budd, 1947. The historical society sold the depot in 2026 | bocahistory.org |
| Central Florida Railroad Museum | Winter Garden | Tavares & Gulf depot of 1913, and a collection of dining-car china. Opened May 21, 1983 | cfrhs.org |
| Flagler Museum | Palm Beach | Whitehall, completed 1902, and Flagler’s private car No. 91, Jackson & Sharp, 1886 | flaglermuseum.us |
| Gold Coast Railroad Museum | Miami | Ferdinand Magellan, Pullman 1928, and Florida East Coast 4-6-2 No. 153, Alco 1922. Founded 1957 | goldcoastrailroadmuseum.org |
| Florida Railroad Museum | Parrish | Weekend excursions since 1992 on the former Seaboard Sarasota Subdivision. Founded 1981 | profile · frrm.org |
| Railroad Museum of South Florida | Fort Myers | Atlantic Coast Line 0-6-0 No. 143, Baldwin 1905, at Lakes Regional Park, and a one-mile miniature railroad | rrmsf.org |
| West Florida Railroad Museum | Milton | Louisville & Nashville combination depot, reopened 1909, and bay-window caboose No. 1148 | wfrm.org |
| Robert W. Willaford Railroad Museum | Plant City | Union depot of 1908–1909, where the Coast Line and the Seaboard crossed. Seaboard caboose 5735 | willafordrailroadmuseum.com |
American-Rails.com does not operate these places and does not sell tickets. Confirm hours before you travel.
Florida railroads
The east coast is Henry Flagler’s railroad. The properties he had been gathering took the name Florida East Coast Railway on September 9, 1895. The Key West Extension, the Over-Sea Railroad, opened on January 21, 1912. The Labor Day hurricane ended it on September 2, 1935. Flagler’s house and his private car are in Palm Beach. Two of the railroad’s Pacifics are at the Gold Coast museum in Miami.
The west coast and the middle of the peninsula were Henry Plant’s, and then the Atlantic Coast Line, which bought the Plant System in April 1902. The Seaboard Air Line was the other through route from the north. On July 1, 1967 the Coast Line and the Seaboard merged as the Seaboard Coast Line. Plant City’s depot is the crossing of those two railroads. The Winter Garden depot was the Tavares & Gulf, later a Coast Line building. Parrish rides a piece of the Seaboard’s Sarasota Subdivision. In the panhandle the Louisville & Nashville depot at Milton is the museum, and Frisco cars share the yard. Family Lines and CSX came after the merger. The state map is the Florida railroads page.
In 1984 the legislature named three official railroad museums, in what is now Florida Statutes §15.045. The Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami is one. The Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, the organization that runs at Parrish as the Florida Railroad Museum, is another. The statute also names the Orange Blossom Special Railroad Museum at West Palm Beach. Confirm that name before you add it to a trip.
Boca Express Train Museum
The Florida East Coast station at 747 South Dixie Highway in Boca Raton opened in 1930. Clarence H. Geist, owner of the Boca Raton Club, commissioned it in 1929. Chester G. Henninger designed the Mediterranean Revival building. The railroad used it into the mid-1960s. The National Register listed the station on October 24, 1980. The Boca Raton Historical Society bought the depot in the late 1980s, with a large gift from Countess de Hoernle, and restored it. Rail cars arrived in 1987. The society opened the Boca Express Train Museum to the public in 2004.
The cars the society lists on the National Register are Seaboard Air Line dining car No. 6113 and lounge car No. 6603, both built about 1947 by the Budd Company. An Atlantic Coast Line caboose stands with them. The steam locomotive is a Baldwin 0-6-0T of November 1930, construction number 61559, that worked for Duquesne Slag Products. In its February 2026 preservation news the society reported that Holly Meehan and Donna Zoley had purchased the depot, to use it for small events and performances. The society’s own history museum is the Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum at 71 North Federal Highway. Whether the cars at the Dixie Highway depot are open on a given day is a question for bocahistory.org.
Central Florida Railroad Museum
The Central Florida Railroad Museum is the 1913 Tavares & Gulf depot at 101 South Boyd Street in Winter Garden. The short line was the Tug and Grunt, the Turtle and Gopher, and Try and Go, depending on who was waiting for the train. It ran between Winter Garden and Astatula until the Seaboard Coast Line abandoned that piece on December 31, 1969. The Central Florida Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society was chartered on November 8, 1970. The chapter bought the depot from the Seaboard Coast Line on October 22, 1979. The museum’s grand opening was May 21, 1983. On August 13, 2012 the members voted to leave the NRHS. The Central Florida Railway Historical Society took effect on January 1, 2013. The society keeps the building under a cooperative agreement with the City of Winter Garden and the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation.
The collection the museum is known for is dining-car china. A model railroad fills one room. Open days are on cfrhs.org.
Flagler Museum
The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum is Whitehall, at 1 Whitehall Way in Palm Beach. Carrère and Hastings completed the house in 1902 as Flagler’s wedding present to Mary Lily Kenan Flagler. It is a National Historic Landmark. Flagler’s granddaughter, Jean Flagler Matthews, organized the nonprofit that bought the house in 1959. The public opening was the Restoration Ball on February 6, 1960.
The railroad piece is Railcar No. 91, one of Flagler’s two private cars. Jackson & Sharp of Wilmington built it in 1886. The museum acquired the car in 1959 and displays it in the Flagler Kenan Pavilion, restored from documentation at the Smithsonian, the Delaware State Archives, and the Hagley Museum. The National Endowment for the Humanities notes that the car made the inaugural 1912 trip of the Over-Sea Railroad to Key West. The railroad’s story is the Florida East Coast page, and the extension is the Key West Extension. Visiting days are on flaglermuseum.us.
Gold Coast Railroad Museum
The Gold Coast Railroad Museum dates from 1957. It stands on the former Naval Air Station Richmond, which the museum describes as the second-largest airship base of the Second World War, at 12450 Southwest 152nd Street, beside Zoo Miami. William J. Godfrey had the idea in August 1956. U.S. Sugar gave the museum Florida East Coast 4-6-2 No. 153. The engine left the sugar company on February 19, 1957, and arrived on April 12. In 1984 the museum became one of Florida’s three official railroad museums. The grounds hold more than forty historic rail cars. A model-railroad room and an exhibit on the naval air station share the site with the full-size equipment. The museum runs short train rides on days it posts. Those dates are on the scenic-train guide.
No. 153 is one of seven Pacifics, 151 through 157, that the American Locomotive Company built for the Florida East Coast. This one is a 1922 engine, serial 63262. It worked for the FEC from 1922 to 1938, and it pulled Calvin Coolidge’s train into Miami in 1928. The National Register listed it on February 21, 1985, for its role with the rescue train after the 1935 Labor Day hurricane at Marathon. It has been a static display since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. No. 113, also on the property and also static, is one of the sixty Pacifics numbered 77 through 136 that Alco built for the same railroad between 1910 and 1917.
The car the museum is known for is the Ferdinand Magellan, United States Car No. 1. Pullman built it in 1928, one of six private cars named for explorers. It was armor-plated in 1942 for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower used it. The last official trip was in 1954, when Mamie Eisenhower rode it to Groton, Connecticut, to christen the submarine Nautilus. The car was declared surplus in 1958. The Smithsonian declined it, and the museum acquired it. On October 12, 1984, Ronald Reagan used the car for an Ohio campaign trip. The car was named a National Historic Landmark on February 4, 1985.
Florida Railroad Museum
The Florida Railroad Museum was founded in 1981 as the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum. A 1984 statute recognized that name. Weekend excursions have run from Parrish since 1992, on about six miles of the former Seaboard Air Line Sarasota Subdivision between Parrish and Willow. The address is 12210 83rd Street East. The museum describes a round trip of about an hour and a half, and it calls the ride “Where You Ride the Exhibits.” The equipment and the longer history are on the Florida Railroad Museum page. Which weekends the train runs is on that page, on frrm.org, and on the scenic-train guide.
Railroad Museum of South Florida
The Railroad Museum of South Florida is a 501(c)(3) in Lakes Regional Park, at 7330 Gladiolus Drive in Fort Myers. The interpretive center is a depot-style building. Outside, cosmetically restored, is Atlantic Coast Line 0-6-0 No. 143, a Baldwin of 1905, class E-4. The Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum offered the engine in 1992. It came to Lakes Park in 1995, and the cosmetic work was finished on April 28, 2001. Beside it is a Seaboard caboose of 1953, also cosmetically restored. A one-mile miniature railroad, a ride of about fifteen minutes, runs through villages meant to be Southwest Florida around 1950. Model layouts are inside. Open days are on rrmsf.org.
The full-size dinner and excursion train at Fort Myers is the Seminole Gulf, a separate railroad. Its page and the scenic-train guide have the trips.
West Florida Railroad Museum
The West Florida Railroad Museum occupies the Louisville & Nashville depot at 5003 Henry Street in Milton. The Pensacola & Atlantic, chartered on March 4, 1881 and financed by the L&N, built a depot here in 1882. On July 1, 1885 the P&A became a division of the L&N. The 1882 depot burned in 1907. The L&N put up the present combination freight and passenger station on the same site, and it reopened in 1909. The railroad modernized it in 1917 with indoor restrooms, a larger waiting room, a concrete platform, and a train shed. The last passenger train was the Gulf Wind, on April 30, 1971. The depot closed on May 1, 1973. The Santa Rosa Historical Society bought it from the L&N in 1975 and did a first restoration as a Bicentennial project. The National Register listed the building on October 29, 1982. The museum began in the depot in 1989 and carried out a major restoration in 1992, with a state historic-preservation grant. The society owns the building. The museum operates it.
The car the homepage features is Louisville & Nashville bay-window caboose No. 1148, built in April 1965 at the South Louisville shops. It was later L&N No. 6148 and Seaboard No. 16148. CSX retired it in 1989 and gave it to the museum, which restored it in the 1990s. Frisco equipment is in the yard as well, including caboose No. 1102. A garden railroad and an HO layout run on the days the museum posts. Those days are on wfrm.org.
Robert W. Willaford Railroad Museum
The Robert W. Willaford Railroad Museum occupies the union depot at 102 North Palmer Street in Plant City, the town named for Henry B. Plant. The Atlantic Coast Line, east and west, and the Seaboard Air Line, north and south, built the depot in 1908 and 1909. The architect was J. F. Leitner. The two railroads crossed in a double diamond in front of the building. Mail and Western Union shared the depot with the passengers. The station operated until 1971. The National Register listed it on April 14, 1975. A viewing platform opened on December 14, 2013. The museum took Robert W. Willaford’s name in September 2013, and the ceremony was at the first Railfest in February 2014.
The pieces out front that the museum is known for are Seaboard Air Line caboose No. 5735, built in 1963, and a Whitcomb locomotive of 1942. The platform next door looks out on the CSX main line, which is still a railroad. Open days are on willafordrailroadmuseum.com.
Related reading
- Railroad museums in the United States
- Florida railroads · Florida East Coast · Key West Extension
- Atlantic Coast Line · Seaboard Air Line · Seaboard Coast Line · Family Lines · CSX
- Louisville & Nashville · St. Louis-San Francisco
- Florida Railroad Museum · Seminole Gulf · Florida scenic train rides
- Tourist trains · U.S. railroad history
- Neighbor: Georgia museums
Sources
- Boca Raton Historical Society, bocahistory.org, accomplishments and designated-sites pages, and Preservation News, February 2026: Geist commissioned the FEC depot in 1929; the FEC designed and built it; it opened in 1930 and operated into the mid-1960s; 747 South Dixie Highway; society restoration in the late 1980s with a gift from Countess de Hoernle; rail cars delivered 1987; Boca Express Train Museum opened in 2004; Seaboard dining car No. 6113 and lounge car No. 6603, both ca. 1947, listed by the society among National Register properties at the depot. February 2026: Holly Meehan and Donna Zoley purchased the depot for small events and performances. The society’s history museum is at 71 North Federal Highway. National Register of Historic Places, October 24, 1980, for the station. Chester G. Henninger is the architect of record on the Register listing. Baldwin construction number 61559, November 1930, follows the locomotive’s published builder record; the road number it was built with is disputed and is not stated above
- Central Florida Railway Historical Society, cfrhs.org, history page: chapter chartered November 8, 1970; Tavares & Gulf depot purchased from the Seaboard Coast Line October 22, 1979; grand opening May 21, 1983; vote to leave the NRHS August 13, 2012; Central Florida Railway Historical Society effective January 1, 2013; 101 South Boyd Street; depot built 1913; abandonment of the Winter Garden–Astatula line December 31, 1969. The Tug and Grunt nicknames follow the local historical record used by the society’s own account of the railroad. Dining-car china is the collection the museum features
- Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, flaglermuseum.us: Whitehall, Carrère and Hastings, completed 1902, for Mary Lily Kenan Flagler; Jean Flagler Matthews; purchase 1959; Restoration Ball February 6, 1960; 1 Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. Railcar No. 91, Jackson & Sharp of Wilmington, 1886, one of two private cars, acquired 1959, Flagler Kenan Pavilion, restored from Smithsonian, Delaware State Archives, and Hagley documentation. National Endowment for the Humanities: the car made the 1912 inaugural Over-Sea Railroad trip to Key West. Florida East Coast name, September 9, 1895, and Key West Extension dates, January 21, 1912 to September 2, 1935, follow the American-Rails Florida East Coast and Key West pages
- Gold Coast Railroad Museum, goldcoastrailroadmuseum.org: founded 1957; former Naval Air Station Richmond; the museum calls the base the second-largest Second World War airship station; more than 40 historic rail cars; one of three official Florida state railroad museums in 1984; 12450 SW 152nd Street, Miami. William J. Godfrey, August 1956; U.S. Sugar donated FEC 153; departure February 19, 1957; arrival April 12, 1957. FEC 153: Alco 1922, serial 63262, one of Pacifics 151–157, in FEC service 1922–1938, Coolidge to Miami in 1928, static since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. National Register, February 21, 1985, for the 1935 Marathon rescue train. FEC 113: one of Pacifics 77–136, Alco 1910–1917. Ferdinand Magellan: Pullman, 1928, one of six explorer-named cars, armor-plated 1942, U.S. Car No. 1; last official use 1954, Mamie Eisenhower to Groton for the Nautilus; surplus 1958; Smithsonian declined; museum acquired the car; Reagan campaign trip October 12, 1984; National Historic Landmark February 4, 1985. National Park Service landmark file agrees on the 1928 Pullman date and the 12450 address. The museum’s own railcars index disagrees with itself on pieces beyond these three and was not used for a roster
- Florida Statutes §15.045, from chapter 84-162 (1984): official railroad museums named as the Orange Blossom Special Railroad Museum, West Palm Beach; Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Inc., and Gold Coast Railroad, Inc.; and Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, Inc. The Parrish operation is that third corporation under its later public name. The statute’s Tampa address is the 1984 wording. Florida Railroad Museum, frrm.org, and the American-Rails Parrish page: founded 1981; excursions from Parrish since 1992; about six miles of the former Seaboard Air Line Sarasota Subdivision, Parrish to Willow; 12210 83rd Street East; round trip of about an hour and a half
- Railroad Museum of South Florida, rrmsf.org: 501(c)(3); 7330 Gladiolus Drive, Lakes Regional Park; Atlantic Coast Line 0-6-0 No. 143, Baldwin 1905, class E-4, offered by the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum in 1992, moved to the park in 1995, cosmetic restoration finished April 28, 2001; Seaboard caboose of 1953, cosmetically restored, number omitted because published numbers disagree; one-mile miniature railroad, about fifteen minutes, villages of Southwest Florida about 1950. Seminole Gulf follows the American-Rails Seminole Gulf page
- West Florida Railroad Museum, wfrm.org, depot exhibit and railroad timeline: Pensacola & Atlantic chartered March 4, 1881; 1882 depot; became an L&N division July 1, 1885; depot burned 1907; present depot reopened 1909; modernized 1917; Gulf Wind last run April 30, 1971; depot closed May 1, 1973; Santa Rosa Historical Society purchase in 1975 (the timeline gives both January and March); National Register October 29, 1982; museum opened in the depot 1989; major restoration 1992; 5003 Henry Street, Milton. Caboose exhibit: L&N No. 1148, built April 1965 at South Louisville, later 6148 and Seaboard 16148, retired 1989, donated by CSX, restored in the 1990s. Frisco caboose No. 1102 exhibit page describes an all-steel cupola car American Car & Foundry built in 1934 for the Santa Fe. That builder note is the museum’s; the body names the car and the Frisco display
- Robert W. Willaford Railroad Museum, willafordrailroadmuseum.com, and the City of Plant City: union depot at 102 North Palmer Street, built 1908–1909 by the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line, architect J. F. Leitner, mail and Western Union, in service until 1971, National Register April 14, 1975. The museum’s about page says 1974 and was not followed. Renamed September 2013; first Railfest ceremony February 2014; viewing platform opened December 14, 2013. Seaboard caboose No. 5735, built 1963, and a Whitcomb of 1942. Atlantic Coast Line formation April 21, 1900, Plant System purchase April 1902, and the Seaboard Coast Line merger July 1, 1967, follow the American-Rails Atlantic Coast Line page
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Oct 25, 26 12:17 AM
All-time diesel roster of the Indiana Harbor Belt. 202 locomotive frames, each counted once. NW2s, SW7s, SW1500s, road switchers, and gensets. Slugs and boosters are outside the count. -
Indiana Harbor Belt Steam Roster (Built Since 1900)
Oct 25, 26 12:13 AM
Steam locomotives of the Indiana Harbor Belt built since 1900. 182 engines, each counted once. 0-6-0s, 2-6-0s, 0-8-0s, and 2-8-2s. The three U-4a switchers are three-cylinder Brooks engines of 1927. -
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad: Map, Rosters, History
Oct 25, 26 12:00 AM
Indiana Harbor Belt, the inner belt across the Calumet, from the East Chicago Belt of May 16, 1896. Renamed June 29, 1907. Still operating, headquarters Hammond. Steam roster is the companion, 182 loc… -
NYC's "P Motor" Electric Locomotives
Oct 24, 26 11:43 PM
New York Central P motors: 22 Alco-GE 2-C+C-2 electrics, Cleveland Union Terminal 1050–1071, class P-1a. 3,030 hp one-hour on 3,000-volt DC catenary, then 660-volt third rail as P-2a and P-2b.
