The Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway, Florida, 1896:

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[Photo: Shorpy/William Henry Jackson. Detroit Publishing Company]

Full size here.

Only 7.5 miles long, it connected Lake Worth at Juno, to Jupiter Inlet, Florida. With intermediate stops at Venus and Mars, it was often called the Celestial Railroad.

1896 was its last year of operation.

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