The First Coast Railroad (reporting mark FCRD) is a class III railroad operating in Florida and Georgia, owned by Genesee & Wyoming.
The FCRD was founded in April 2005 to lease 32 miles of a former Seaboard Air Line Railroad from CSX.
[1] The line from Yulee north into southern Georgia was built in 1894 by the Florida Northern Railroad.
The line from Yulee to Fernandina Beach was completed in 1861 by the Florida Railroad which connected Fernandina Beach with Cedar Key.
[4] CSX leased the lines north of Yulee to the First Coast Railroad in 2005.