Valrico Subdivision

Valrico Subdivision
CSX
SZ 0.0
Valrico
SZ 5.2
Durant
fmr. SAL
SZ 11.8
Welcome
CSX
SV 835.8
Edison
CSX
SV 837.7
Nichols
SV 841.3
IMC
Mulberry Yard
CSX
SV 842.8
Mulberry
CSX
SV 845.4
Ridgewood
Florida 60.svg SR 60
SV 850.1
Bartow
fmr. South Florida Railroad (ACL)
to Lakeland
fmr. South Florida Railroad (ACL)
to Lake Alfred
US 17.svgUS 98.svg US 17 / US 98
SV
SVE
851.1
Pembroke Junction
SVE 857.3
AX 870.8
Homeland
AX 875.0
Fort Meade
AX 879.4
Tencor
AX 882.7
Bowling Green
fmr. Florida Southern Ry. (ACL)
to Arcadia
SV 855.4
Lake Garfield (abandoned)
SV 858.6
Alturas (abandoned)
SV 863.5
West Lake Wales (abandoned)
CSX
Florida Midland Railroad
Note: Not to scale

CSX Transportation's Valrico Subdivision is a railroad line in Central Florida. It serves as CSX's main route through a region of Central Florida known as the Bone Valley, which contains the largest known deposits of phosphate in the United States.[1]

The Valrico Subdivision runs from a junction with CSX's S Line in Valrico east to Mulberry and Bartow before turning south to Fort Meade and Bowling Green for a total of 47 miles.[2]

Much of the Valrico Subdivision dates back to the early 1900s and was originally operated under the same name by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, a CSX predecessor.[3] Though track to Bowling Green was previously operated by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, another CSX predecessor.[4]

  1. ^ V. E. McKelvey and others, "Domestic Phosphate Deposits", US Geological Survey, Open-File Report 53-165, 1953.
  2. ^ CSX Jacksonville Division Timetable
  3. ^ Seaboard Air Line Railroad South Florida Division Timetable (1940)
  4. ^ Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Southern Division Timetable (1949)