History: The Frisco

Gulf, Florida and Alabama Railroad is chartered to run northward from Pensacola. It builds extensive yard, terminal, and waterfront facilities in Pensacola. In October it buys the Southern States logging line and by 1915 expands it to reach from Pensacola to Kimbrough, Alabama.
AGR Heritage

The P&P and PA&T are reorganized into the Pensacola, Mobile, & New Orleans Railway.
FGAR Heritage

Electric lights added to Milton depot. Within a year indoor restrooms, an enlarged general waiting room, and a concrete platform with train shed are added to modernize the depot.
FGAR Heritage

Gulf Ports Terminal Railway is incorporated.
AGR Heritage

L&N passenger service peaks with six trains/day calling at Milton.
FGAR Heritage

PM&NO is sold to the GPTR.
AGR Heritage

Muscle Shoals, Birmingham, & Pensacola Railway is incorporated. A week later, on April 8, the MSB&P Railway bought the GF&A.
AGR Heritage

MSB&P Railway reorganized as MSB&P Railroad.
AGR Heritage

The MSB&P Railroad is purchased by the St. Louis - San Francisco Railroad (Frisco). It operates as a separate part of the Frisco system until July 24, 1928, when it is officially absorbed into the Frisco.
AGR Heritage

The Frisco begins freight service to Pensacola after purchasing the GF&A Railroad and extending a line to Kimbrough from Amory, Mississippi.
AGR Heritage

GPTR is sold to the Frisco through its subsidiary MSB&P.
AGR Heritage

The Frisco begins passenger service from Pensacola with the “Sunnyland” to Memphis.
AGR Heritage

L&N and Seaboard railroads inaugurate diesel-powered "Gulf Wind" to replace earlier steam-powered trains between Jacksonville and New Orleans.
CSX Heritage

The "Sunnyland" has its last run and Frisco passenger service ends in Pensacola.
AGR Heritage

The Frisco passenger depot in Pensacola is razed. Freight service continues.
AGR Heritage