Continuing north, the line goes through Sulpher Springs, Lutz, Land o' Lakes, and Masaryktown and into Brooksville.

The Brooksville and Hudson Railroad was built in 1902 and was initially owned by Aripeka Sawmills Inc.

This line went from Brooksville south to what would become Fivay Junction (near the present-day intersection of US 41 and SR 52) then west to Hudson.

[4] The Tampa Northern Railroad company was incorporated on April 7, 1906 by Henry M. Atkinson of Atlanta.

Atkinson intended to build a railroad from Tampa to Thomasville, Georgia to connect with his Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad, which would create a direct rail route between Tampa and Atlanta, which never happened.

This would create an additional route from Tampa to the Seaboard main line in northern Florida.

[2] In 2015, CSX proposed to sell both the Clearwater and Brooksville subdivisions (which would include the entire former Tampa Northern line) to the Florida Department of Transportation for potential use as commuter rail.

Similar transactions between FDOT and CSX have taken place in the Miami and Orlando areas for tracks that today run the Tri-Rail and SunRail commuter lines respectively.