Tag: transportation

Bill Jennings, President of the College Park Historical Society at the Orlando Public Library, October 25, 2023. Photo by Orange County Library System Staff Photographer Amanda Murphy. College Park has produced a lot of great people. I was in a meetin ... Read more

ABOVE: The future leader of Showalter Flying Service, Bob Showalter, seated on the cushion top left, next to Paul Wagner, Jr. Rollins College President Paul Wagner, center, with Howard Showalter, right, and family. Photo circa 1950. Listen as Showalter ... Read more

Listen as Showalter Flying Service owners Bob and Kim Showalter share the history of the aviation company and our community in this oral history interview at Showalter Flying Service at Orlando Executive Airport on January 14, 2015. LISTEN Part I (18:42) ... Read more

ABOVE: The future leader of Showalter Flying Service, Bob Showalter, seated on the cushion top left, next to Paul Wagner, Jr. Rollins College President Paul Wagner, center, with Howard Showalter, right, and family. Photo circa 1950. Listen as Showalter F ... Read more

Bill "Boxcar" Leach worked for the railroad in Central Florida for 40 years. Listen as he tells the history of railroads in Florida from the railroad bonds issued for Civil War debt to Sun Rail and Rails to Trails and the nearly 3,000 miles of right away ... Read more