Author: [Travel Brochure]
Title: JACKSONVILLE, TAMPA & KEY-WEST SYSTEM. FLORIDA. Corrected to April 11, 1889
Description: Jacksonville, Florida: DaCosta Prg. and Pub. House, 1889. 1st printing thus. Self-wrappers. Single printed sheet of yellow paper, folded 6x, to form a 24 panel brochure. Woodcut of a JT&KW locomotive to front panel. 3-panel JT&KW route map in Florida. Unfolded: 19-7/8"x 14-1/8". Folded: 7-1/8" x 3-1/4". A fragile item, with wear along the folds, with the occasional short split. About Very Good. "The Tampa, Peace Creek and St. Johns River Railroad was incorporated in 1879, and on June 27, 1881 the name was changed to the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway. The Palatka and Indian River Railroad was incorporated in 1881 to run from Palatka south past Sanford. The JT&KW bought it in 1887. Eventually the JT&KW main line stretched from Jacksonville to the St. Johns River port of Sanford, where the separately-owned South Florida Railroad continued to Tampa. The full line opened on February 20, 1886. The Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railroad was organized in 1883 to build a connection from the JT&KW's branch to Enterprise, another St. Johns River port, southeast to Titusville on the Indian River. The JT&KW acquired the line in 1886. The Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway opened in 1889 as a short connection between the JT&KW's Indian River Steamboat Company at Jupiter and the north end of Lake Worth, where steamers continued south. The line was abandoned by 1896 after the completion of the parallel Florida East Coast Railway. In 1893 the JT&KW went bankrupt." [Wiki]. This a rare travel brochure/train schedule for this relatively short-lived Florida-based railway system. OCLC locates just 2 similar items in single copies, one from 1891, one from 1892.

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