Download or read book Florida's Great Ocean Railway written by Dan Gallagher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The building of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway extension over water to Key West from 1905 to 1916 was s triumph of engineering and logistics. The Keys were remote and with little means of communication. The massive amounts of materials had to be moved with steam power. This book tells the story of the planners and their plan and its execution. It has 250 old photos, most of which have never been published before.