Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad
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Overview | |
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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[]
- ^ "Index of Railroad Stations, 1484". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 64 (9). February 1932.
- ^ Great Union Stations: Birmingham's Passenger Trains of the Past https://chicagorailfan.com/stbcbhm.html
- ^ "Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad, Tables 1, 2, 3, 4". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 64 (9). February 1932.
- 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.
- Defunct Georgia (U.S. state) railroads
- Former Class I railroads in the United States
- Predecessors of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Railway companies established in 1926
- Railway companies disestablished in 1946
- Defunct Alabama railroads
- American companies established in 1926
- 1946 mergers and acquisitions
- 1926 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
- 1946 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
- American companies disestablished in 1946
- United States Class I railroad stubs