Track Plan and some history??

This is the trackplan. The main yard is in Arcadia and the route extends from Punta Gorda through Arcadia to Lakeland. The railroad was originally used to transport phosphate ore from the Bone Valley to Punta Gorda where it was hand loaded into transport vessels for shipment to the world. The Bone Valley extends north and east from Punta Gorda for many miles and produces 90% of the world's phosphate. The model will simulate the washing and drying of the ore into pure phosphate, the manufacture of fertilizer from the pure mineral and the export of  both the purified mineral and the manufactured products via interchange with CSX, railroad car ferry from Punta Gorda and barge loading at the wharf in Punta Gorda. Most of this still takes place today however not in Punta Gorda.  My condo IS in Punta Gorda so.... that's where the revisionist history takes over.