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In this November,
1985, photo, the Atlantic Coast Line engine #1504 (a
1919 Pacific) is in front of the Seaboard System Railroad
building with the Acosta Bridge (SR13) lift span between
the two towers partially obscuring the raised Florida
East Coast two track Bascule bridge. The engine has
since been relegated to a nearby parking lot. The building
is now the CSXT General Office Building. The SR
13 highway bridge has been replaced by a wider, higher
concrete one. And the 1925 replacement of the January
5, 1890, single track railroad swing bridge, the first
bridge across the St. Johns River, still remains in
FEC ownership. A look at a time in history. —— photo by Cliff
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