Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad

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Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad

Byromville, Georgia AB&C station in 1938.
Overview
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia
Reporting mark	AB&C
Locale	Alabama Georgia
Dates of operation	1887–1945
Successor	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length	640 miles (1,030 kilometres)

The Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad was organized in 1926 to replace the 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 year it operated 639 miles of road and 836 miles of track.

Passenger services[]

It had day and night services on its Atlanta (starting at Terminal Station), Cordele and Waycross division. A branch from that division, breaking off at Fitzgerald, carried sleeping cars from Atlanta to Thomasville. It had an overnight night train from Birmingham, Alabama (the ABC's own Eleventh Street station)^[1][2] continued to Manchester, Georgia, Fitzgerald, Thomasville, Waycross and Brunswick. Another division carried trains from Atlanta to Brunswick.^[3]

Acquisition[]

In 1946 the AB&C was bought by the ACL and then became the latter company's Western Division. According to historical sources there are no surviving AB&C 2-8-2 "Mikado" type locomotives.

References[]

• Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad - report by Georgia Department of Transportation, 2018; 54 pp.
• Georgia Railroads, History and Heritage
• Goolsby, Larry Atlantic, Birmingham & Coast. ACL&SAL Historical Society. 2000.