Palmetto Subdivision

The Palmetto Subdivision is a CSX Transportation rail line in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.

[1] The line notably serves The Mosaic Company's Riverview phosphate plant near the Alafia River, TECO Energy's Big Bend Power Station in southern Hillsoborough County, and Port Manatee in northern Manatee County.

[2] The Parrish Spur and the track south of Tropicana Yard to Oneco was built earlier in 1903 by the Florida West Shore Railway, a subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.

[3] In 1980, the Seaboard Coast Line's parent company merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation.

The Palmetto Subdivision also continued south of Oneco to Sarasota and Venice in the SCL era before that segment was taken over by Fort Myers-based Seminole Gulf Railway in 1987.

CSX train O823 pulling Tropicana Juice cars across the Manatee River Bridge in Bradenton in 2018.
Palmetto Subdivision passing the historic Bradentown depot.
1970 Aerial image of Bradenton showing the Atlantic Coast Line's bascule bridge. Remnants of the Seaboard Air Line's bridge and right of way (which connected what is now the Parrish Spur with Tropicana Yard) are also visible