The 1926 SAL extension in Florida went (and still goes) all of the way down to Homestead. The Miami terminal was on a spur a couple of miles or so east of Hialeah junction, with the line to Homestead continuing south from the junction. I have a 1936 OGR that says service between Miami and Homestead is freight only. Yet I haven't been able to verify whether or not, for that 4 year period between completion of the line to Homestead in 1926 and the SAL entering bankruptcy in 1930, passenger service may have been offered south of Miami.
There seems to be some support for this -- there was a "Coral Gables - Miami Biltmore" station (actually about a mile and half west of the Gables on Bird Road). Most convincing is the Homestead SAL station, which is still standing. As you can see from the photos below (taken in 1926, 1936, and today), it looks very much like a passenger station combined with a freight depot. Although there doesn't really seem to be a passenger platform in the 1926 photo (hard to tell), you can clearly see what appear to be benches inside of the station.
So does anyone know if there was passenger service here in the late 1920s?
There seems to be some support for this -- there was a "Coral Gables - Miami Biltmore" station (actually about a mile and half west of the Gables on Bird Road). Most convincing is the Homestead SAL station, which is still standing. As you can see from the photos below (taken in 1926, 1936, and today), it looks very much like a passenger station combined with a freight depot. Although there doesn't really seem to be a passenger platform in the 1926 photo (hard to tell), you can clearly see what appear to be benches inside of the station.
So does anyone know if there was passenger service here in the late 1920s?