It runs along CSX's S Line from Baldwin south to Zephyrhills via Ocala and Wildwood for a total of 155.7 miles.
[2] Some of the double track was installed in the mid 2010s to further increase capacity since through trains no longer use the adjacent A Line, which is now partially state owned.
[3][4] Passenger service previously operated over the line which diminished in the late 1980s when CSX abandoned parts of Seaboard's branch at Wildwood to West Palm Beach and Miami (the Florida Western and Northern Railroad).
From the 1920s to the 1980s, the yard was significant since the Seaboard's division points to Tampa, Orlando, and Miami were located just to the south.
[8] Trains to Miami turned in Coleman down Seaboard's Florida Western and Northern Railroad.
Wildwood station still stands and is co-located in the yard, though passenger service has long been discontinued.
The abandonment was part of an effort to consolidate the merged network, which was named the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.
[17] In 1980, the Seaboard Coast Line's parent company merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation.