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Jupiter And Lake Worth RailroadThe Jupiter and Lake Worth Railroad was a very short part of the Plant System (run by Henry B. Plant), headed by the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway. It connected Lake Worth at Juno, Florida to Jupiter Inlet at Jupiter, Florida. With intermediate stops at Venus and Mars, the railroad was often called the Celestial Railroad. The purpose of the railroad was to link two waterways, Lake Worth and Jupiter Inlet, both of which had Plant System steamboat lines. The Indian River Steamboat Company went north through Jupiter Inlet and connected waterways (now part of the Intracoastal Waterway) to Titusville. There were no turning tracks, so the locomotives always pointed towards Juno, making the reverse trip going backwards. Fare was rather high for the time, being 10 cents per mile (75 cents total). Henry Flagler, owner of the Florida East Coast Railway, rejected the high price being offered for the line, and instead built his own line to the west. The new railroad was finished in February 1894, and the Jupiter and Lake Worth Railroad was done by June 1896. Eventually, a canal was dug between the two waterways that this railroad connected; this is now part of the Intracoastal Waterway. Part of the right-of-way was used for the current alignment of US 1 (SR 5), built in 1956; the rest was abandoned and has been mostly redeveloped. External links Town of Jupiter - history of the railroad
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