Tuesday, August 19, 2014

"Doster girls on the Jupiter & Lake Worth Railway Company steam engine #1."

State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/29390
A locomotive of the "Celestial Railroad", so named because the stations along its route were named Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Juno. Construction of the narrow gauge Jupiter & Lake Worth Railroad began in 1889 and was operating by April of 1890. It was part of the Plant System. British writer Julian Ralph is credited with the nickname from a March 1893 Harper's New Monthly Magazine article where he noted the station names along the line. The "Celestial Railroad" was dismantled in 1896.