The privilege of naming the new park was accorded the South Jacksonville Woman? Eventually the name was changed to FEC Park, in honor of the Florida East Coast Railroad, which maintained an extensive railroad yard and passenger depot in South Jacksonville for many years.
The rail line passes adjacent to the park, which consists of a large open field with scattered oaks, sycamores, palms, and pines. Name: F. Visit Instructions: One photo of the park that is a different view from the one on the page, and give the date and description your visit. Add any additional information that you may have about this park. Try the Waymarkly app! For sitemap menu options click on the top tab. Social Media Links. Social Media. Google Translate and other services no longer support Internet Explorer.
Please download a supported modern browser. Chrome Edge Firefox Opera. English English. Site Search Tab. Hide Instructions x. Parks Front Page Suggested Content:. There is always something to do, see, and experience daily at our parks. Parks News. Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail Trail Project. Sections at a time of the rail trail will be repaired beginning in October. Squad JaxParks Offering Military Discount. Boat Ramp Closure. Minutes away from Jacksonville's city center, a natural wonderland awaits.
Nature at work Miles of untouched woodlands, marshes, beaches, and waterways await your observation and discovery. My webpages are an attempt at putting everything I can find of the subject in one convenient place.
There are plenty of other good websites to help me in this effort, and they are listed in the links section on my indexa page, or as needed on individual pages. Please do not write to me about something that may be incorrect, and then hound the heck out of me if I do not respond to you in the manner you would like.
I operate on the "Golden Rule Principle", and if you are not familiar with it, please acquaint yourself with how to treat people by reading Mathew among others, the principle exists in almost every religion. If you contact me like some do, hi Paul and try to make it a "non-fun" thing and start with the name calling, your name will go into my spambox list!
Please Note: Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them. For those of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, my indexa page has a list of almost everything railroad oriented I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to help you detail your pike.
If this is a railfan page, every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this railfan guide is correct. Once in a while, an error may creep in, especially if restaurants or gas stations open, close, or change names. Most of my maps are a result of personal observation after visiting these locations.
I have always felt that a picture is worth a thousand words", and I feel annotated maps such as the ones I work up do the same justice for the railfan over a simple text description of the area. Since the main focus of my website is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them. Since most of us railheads don't have just trains as a hobby, I have also tried to point out where other interesting sites of the area are While some may feel they shouldn't be included, these other things tend to make MY trips a lot more interesting My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a thousand words, especially for railfanning.
Text descriptions only get you so far, especially if you get lost or disoriented. Take along good maps I belong to AAA, which allows you to get local maps for free when you visit the local branches. ADC puts out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their state maps do not have the railroads on them.
If you can find em, I like the National Geographic map book of the U. Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known. Aerial shots were taken from www. The screen captures from Bing are made with Snagit , a Techsmith product Pictures and additional information is always needed if anyone feels inclined to take 'em, send 'em, and share 'em, or if you have something to add or correct While I'm certainly not claiming it's scientific or fool proof it should at the very least give you some idea of what to expect.
I base it on the familiar scale of , with 0 being the worst and 10 being the safest possible situation. I make no guarantees or promises but trust it will aid you in some way. Acknowledgement: I would like to thank Robert Mann for taking the time to write up this railfan guide for ya'll and sending it in to share with everyone.
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