At the end of 1925 Florida was in a construction frenzy. Building supplies could not reach Florida quickly enough. There were simply not enough railroad cars to meet the demand. Remember, that in 1926 few goods traveled long distances by truck. Some of the building materials for Florida also arrived on ships.
Construction in Miami needed huge supplies of building materials and Miami was for the most part at the end of the railway line down Florida’s Atlantic coast. In August of 1925, the Florida East Coast Railway had restricted shipments because of a shortage of rail cars. Builders in Florida were using the rail cars to warehouse materials because of a shortage of storage areas. Jacksonville and Miami hardly had room on their sidetracks for the still-unloaded cars.