Eating Disorders: Legacy Trail Sarasota

Saturday 24 November 2012

Legacy Trail Sarasota

"The Legacy Trail had just opened and I was dying to see it. As for exercise, it would sure beat the treadmill in our developments clubhouse". But first a little history.Local folks no doubt have heard about the Legacy Trail by now but for those who haven't, the Legacy Trail is nothing more than the paved over railroad bed of the CSX Railroad, previously the Atlantic Coast Line, Tampa Southern Railroad, and Seaboard Airline Railway.The Legacy Trail occupies the tracks that were laid were to serve the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus winter quarters (1911) and the Payne Terminal on Sarasota Bay with numerous other businesses that came along. The first passenger train (SAL) arrived in Sarasota on December 1924. The last, 1971. The later 16 mile extension took the tracks to its southern point where in 1927 by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers built the Venice Depot.