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- Tourists in Key West, Florida with the Conch Tour Train, 1962 - The arrival of the Florida East Coast Railway in 1912 helped turn Key West, Florida, into a popular tourist destination. After a destructive hurricane ended railroad operations in 1935, automobiles, airplanes, and cruise ships took over the tourist traffic. The rubber-tired Conch Tour Train opened in 1958 as a tribute to FEC's long-vanished Key West trains.
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Tourists in Key West, Florida with the Conch Tour Train, 1962
The arrival of the Florida East Coast Railway in 1912 helped turn Key West, Florida, into a popular tourist destination. After a destructive hurricane ended railroad operations in 1935, automobiles, airplanes, and cruise ships took over the tourist traffic. The rubber-tired Conch Tour Train opened in 1958 as a tribute to FEC's long-vanished Key West trains.