Okahumpka, FL: State Fair/SCL/ACL Depot

Original Location: (Satellite, according to a 1952 aerial, it was east of Main between Quarters Rd and the tracks.)

If you zoom out, it is easy to see how the  tracks went through town on a 45-degree angle.

Current Location: (Satellite)

Randall Thornton posted five photos with the comment: "The Okahumpka ACL depot is the next stop south of Leesburg, Florida.  Here are photos of it in place and on a truck being hauled to the State of Florida fairgrounds in Tampa where it still stands.  The black and white photo was taken in 1971 by W. Moneypeny.  The moving photo was taken by a friend of mine, Jack Howard. I took the others in 1978. It was moved in 1979.  Tracks long gone."

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Jeff Ritter: Nice!!! Where is that???

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[The SCL sign is a reminder that the ACL and SAL merged in 1967.]

Randall Thornton commented on Jeff's comment on the fourth photo
Okahumpka is just south of Leesburg, Florida. Here is a map of the ACL in Florida. You can follow the line from Ocala to Leesburg, Okahumpka and over the the west coast of Florida.

The Leesburg depot would have been a fancier depot to save. I wonder if it was too difficult to move. This depot had a bay window for the agent's desk, but it doesn't have a special dormer over that window. So I'm guessing that this rectangle with the caboose is the depot.

3D Satellite

The fence makes further identification difficult.

Street View