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The Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway (SA&M) was a historic railroad located in the U.S. states of Georgia and Alabama. SA&M was built in the 1880s running between Montgomery, Alabama and Lyons, Georgia. It would be completed to Savannah, Georgia in 1896 after being renamed the Georgia and Alabama Railway.
The Savannah and Memphis Railroad is a historic railroad that operated in Alabama. It was founded as the Opelika and Talladega Railroad in 1854. Before any track was built, the railroad became the Opelika and Tuscumbia Railroad in 1861. No track was built under the latter name either as the American Civil War broke out and interrupted plans.
In 1890–91, the railroad built 57 miles of track between Meldrim and Lyons and purchased the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad, Savannah, Dublin and Western Short Line Railway, and Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad. In 1894, the S&W ran into financial trouble and the CR&C was split off and returned to its original owners.
Accounting records of the Savannah & Western Railroad Company show that capital stock and first-mortgage, 6 per cent bonds of the Columbus and Western Railway, in amount $1,750,000 and $800,000, respectively, and first-mortgage, 8 per cent bonds of The Western Railway of Alabama, in amount $260,000, were outstanding at July 31, 1888, on which ...
After the completion of the Alabama Midland Railway, it was acquired in July 1890 by Henry B. Plant of the Plant System and merged into the SF&W. Together the railroads formed a continuous mainline from Savannah to Montgomery, colloquially known as the "bow line" due to its distinctive shape. [8]
The Georgia and Alabama Railroad is not to be confused with the Georgia and Alabama Railway, which was a different entity entirely, formed in 1895 and based in Savannah. However, due to the similarity in their names, the G&A Railway was often referred to as the G&A Railroad [5] until it became part of the Seaboard Air Line Railway ca. 1900. [6]
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The Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad [1] [note 1] (the GF&A), known as the Sumatra Leaf Route, and colloquially as the Gopher, Frog & Alligator [2] [3] was a 180 miles (290 km)-long railroad from Richland, Georgia to Carrabelle, Florida. [4] It was founded in 1895 as a logging railroad, the Georgia Pine Railway.