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The Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad (reporting mark FGA) is a shortline railroad owned and operated by RailUSA in the Florida Panhandle.The line consists of 430 miles (692 km) of track: a main line from Baldwin, Florida (just west of Jacksonville), through Tallahassee to Pensacola, as well as a branch from Tallahassee north to Attapulgus, Georgia.
In 1869, the Atlantic and Gulf purchased the line under construction by the South Georgia and Florida Railroad. It had been chartered by the Georgia General Assembly on December 22, 1857 to construct a railroad between Albany, Georgia and Thomasville, Georgia and from there to the most advantageous point on the Florida line.
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.
Valdosta Southern Railroad: Georgia and Florida Railway: G&F G&F 1906 1926 Georgia and Florida Railroad: Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad: GF&A SAL: 1927 1974 Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railway: GF&A SAL: 1901 1928 Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad: Georgia Pine Railway: SAL: 1895 1901 Georgia, Florida ...
The Atlantic and Gulf network was acquired by Henry B. Plant in November 1879 and he reorganized it as the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway (SF&W) the following month. [4] The line from Thomasville to Albany would be the first of two Plant System lines to Albany (the other was the former Brunswick and Western Railroad , which the Plant ...
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway: Atlantic, Waycross and Northern Railroad: AW&N 1911 1924 St. Mary's Railroad [2] [3] Augusta Belt Railway: ACL/ L&N: 1896 1975
The former Brunswick and Western Railroad in Hoboken, Georgia as seen in 2013. In the 1830s, a railroad route from North Florida through South Georgia and onwards to the Atlantic coast was the goal of several different competing companies.
The Georgia and Florida Railway (reporting mark GFRR) is a short line railroad operating in Georgia and Florida, and is a subsidiary of OmniTRAX.The railroad spans 297 miles (478 km) over numerous different rail lines, most of which radiate out of Albany, Georgia.