Editing Wildwood, Florida (section)

===Crossroads of Florida===
[[Image:Wildwood Amtrak station pano01.jpg|thumb|Old railroad station]]
Wildwood is located at the juncture of [[Interstate 75 in Florida|Interstate&nbsp;75]], [[Florida's Turnpike]], [[Florida State Road 44|State Road&nbsp;44]], and [[U.S. Route 301 in Florida|U.S. Route&nbsp;301]]. For many years Wildwood was the northern [[control city]] on Turnpike road signs however this was replaced with [[Ocala, Florida]] beginning in 2007. Because of its centralized location and easy access to both coasts, it is often referred to as "The Crossroads of Florida". [[Wildwood station]] operates as a [[CSX Transportation|CSX]] maintenance yard, and until 2004, was served by [[Amtrak]]'s ''[[Palmetto (train)|Palmetto]]'' between New York City and Tampa. Amtrak's [[Amtrak Thruway#East|Amtrak Thruway]] bus service makes a stop in Wildwood. The bus travels from [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] to [[Dade City]], and is timed to meet arrivals and departures of the ''[[Silver Star (Amtrak train)|Silver Star]]'' train in Jacksonville.<ref>http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/wildwood.htm Wildwood Amtrak Station (USA RailGuide &ndash; TrainWeb)</ref> The [[Florida Midland Railroad (current)|Florida Midland Railroad]] owns an abandoned railroad spur that once led to [[Leesburg, Florida|Leesburg]], but now solely serves as a home for several abandoned freight cars along [[County Road 44A (Sumter County, Florida)|County Road 44A]].

In the latter 20th century, Wildwood served as a division point and rail yard for the [[Seaboard Air Line Railroad]] (SAL), and later the [[Seaboard Coast Line]] (SCL) and [[Seaboard System]] Railroads. SAL, SCL and Amtrak passenger trains from [[New York City]] and [[Midwestern United States|the Midwest]] were split and combined here to serve [[St. Petersburg, Florida|St. Petersburg]] and [[Miami, Florida|Miami]] until the 1990s.<ref>Seaboard Coast Line Railroad timetable, December 15, 1967, Tables 18, 20</ref> Wildwood continues to host Wildwood Yard, which is now used by [[CSX Transportation]], a successor to the Seaboard.