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Trains departed from Atlanta at 8:50 a.m. and 7 p.m. and arrived there at 1:35 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Not much has happened in between 1867 and now, track realignments in some areas resulted in height clearances and track improvements. CSXT 8029 is waiting for another train at the siding at Tunnel Hill, Georgia, on the Western & Atlantic Sub.
The first tunnel, known as the Western and Atlantic Railroad Tunnel at Tunnel Hill, was completed on May 7, 1850, as part of the construction of the Western & Atlantic Railroad (W & A), the first state road in Georgia. It was the first major railroad tunnel in the South and is 1,447 feet [1] /0.274 miles; 441 meters in length.
820 Ralph McGill Blvd., Poncey-Highland, Atlanta, Georgia Coordinates 33°46′05″N 84°21′37″W / 33.768098°N 84.360301°W / 33.768098; -84.
Atlanta and LaGrange Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1847 1857 Atlanta and West Point Railroad: Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway: SOU: 1870 1876 Georgia Air Line Railway: Atlanta and Roswell Railroad: SOU: 1863 1877 Roswell Railroad: Atlanta, Stone Mountain and Lithonia Railway: ASML 1907 1997 N/A Atlanta Terminal Company: ACL/ CG/ L&N/ SOU: 1903 ...
The Atlanta and West Point Rail Road (reporting mark AWP) was a railroad in the U.S. state of Georgia, forming the east portion of the Atlanta-Selma West Point Route.The company was chartered in 1847 as the Atlanta and LaGrange Rail Road and renamed in 1857; construction of the 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [2] line was begun in 1849–50 and completed in May 1854.
The Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad was organized in 1926 to replace the bankrupt Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway. The AB&C was controlled by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which owned a majority of the stock. In 1944 it reported 763 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 33 million passenger-miles; at the end of that ...
1876 map shows the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. In 1833, the Georgia Railroad Company was chartered to businessmen for the sole objective of building a railroad from the west of the state into the inner part of the state of Georgia. [4] In 1834, a second charter was gained with the route changing from Columbus to West Point, Georgia. [4]