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    The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension
    The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension
    The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension
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    The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension

    By Seth H Bramson

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    All aboard for the history of one of the most audacious and innovative railroad engineering feats in history from the celebrated Floridian author.
     
    Although several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler made the decision to extend the Florida East Coast Railway to “the nearest deepwater American port.” In this book, renowned Florida historian Seth H. Bramson reveals how the Key West Extension of the Flagler-owned FEC became the greatest railroad engineering and construction feat in United States, and possibly world, history, an accomplishment that would cement Flagler’s fame and legend for all time. Join Bramson as he recounts the years of operation of this great railroad, what it did for the Florida Keys and what it meant to the resident conchs.
     
    Includes photos
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781625844538
    The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway's Key West Extension
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    Seth H Bramson

    Seth Bramson is Miami's foremost local historian. He is America's single most-published Florida history book author, with sixteen of his twenty-two books dealing directly with the villages, towns, cities, counties, people and businesses of the South Florida Gold Coast. Bob Jensen retired in Homestead as a Navy Commander after serving 28 years. He served in Germany, the Philippines, the US Embassy in Cyprus, Iceland, and twice at the National Security Agency and at Naval Security Group Headquarters in Washington D.C.

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