Florida East Coat Railway - Key West Extension - View of Long Key Viaduct - Photo: South Florida Rail Sales - Vintage Train Postcard

Front: Florida East Coat Railway - Key West Extension Passenger Train Service Extended to Knights Key February 5, 1908 View of Long Key Viaduct and the First Passenger Train to Make the Ship to Knights Key The Viaduct is 2.7 miles in length, built of reinforced concrete, and is a notable example of the use of this new construction material. The rails are 31 feet above mean high water. 
Back: “Go to Key West.” In these simple words in 1904 Henry Morrison Flagler, aged 75, ordered his bright, young engineers to do the “impossible,” to extend his Florida East Coast Railway through t he Everglades and across the hurricane-torn Florida Keys. Behind his “folly” was a plan to develop the little fishing town of Key West at the end of the line into a a major new Caribbean port. This rare postcard is from The Railraod that Died at Sea, by Pat Parks. 
Unmailed
Condition: Great with some aging and discoloration, with some written annotation  
Publisher: The Stephen Greene Press 
Black and white print 

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