First Coast Railroad

First Coast Railroad
Overview
HeadquartersFernandina, Florida
Reporting markFCRD
LocaleFlorida and Georgia, United States
Dates of operation2005present
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length31 miles (50 km)
Other
WebsiteOfficial website
Route map

fmr. SAL
S 593.4
Seals
S 598.9
Kingsland
St. Mary's Railroad
Georgia
Florida
S 605.4
Gross
fmr. SAL
SMA 47.2
Fernandina Beach
fmr. SAL
S 613.5
SMA 35.1
Yulee
CSX

The First Coast Railroad (reporting mark FCRD) is a class III railroad operating in Florida and Georgia, owned by Genesee & Wyoming. The name is derived from its area of operations around the First Coast of Florida.

The FCRD was founded in April 2005 to lease 32 miles of a former Seaboard Air Line Railroad from CSX. It stretches east from Yulee to Fernandina Beach, Florida and north from Yulee to Seals, with a connection at Yulee to CSX.

The north–south line, formerly the Seaboard Air Line main line before it was abandoned by the combined Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in favor of the ex-Atlantic Coast Line Railroad main line to the west, connects to the St. Marys Railroad at Kingsland. The line is abandoned north of Seals. The line from Yulee to Fernandina Beach, which was previously the Fernandina Subdivision, terminates at a WestRock Papermill along the east coast of the Amelia River just south of the mouth of Egans Creek.