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The Waycross Air Line Railroad, chartered in 1887, was an air-line railroad in Georgia.It began operations between Waycross and Sessoms in 1890. In 1901, the railroad had extended as far as Fitzgerald, Georgia, at which time its charter was amended for an extension to Birmingham, Alabama, and it was renamed the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad.
A mile away from the Waycross station. Now part of Waycross. Tebeauville Station No. 10 October 12, 1859 Junction with the main line of Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company. Glenmore Argyl: Station No. 11 December 21, 1859 Successor depot still in existence. Homerville
Waycross is the county seat of and only incorporated city in Ware County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 13,942 in the 2020 census . Waycross gets its name from the city's location at key railroad junctions; lines from six directions meet at the city.
The Waycross—Montgomery Line was built in two parts by two different railroads in the late 1880s. The line from Waycross to Bainbridge, Georgia was first built by the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. It was completed from Waycross to Thomasville in 1859, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
The Downtown Waycross Historic District in Waycross, Georgia is a 50-acre (20 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [ 1 ] It includes the Post Office , the Phoenix Hotel among totals of 47 contributing buildings , two other contributing structures, two contributing sites, and three ...
Locomotive 507 pulls a freight train in Kingsland, GA, in June 2016. Currently [when?] the St. Marys Railroad leases two locomotives; ex-NS 2379 (MP15DC, built as SOU 2379) and ex-NS 2389 (MP15DC, ex-SOU 2389). Annually, St. Marys Railroad moves approximately 1100 carloads of freight and 2000 railcars placed in and out of storage.
In 1881, the Plant System (founded by Henry B. Plant) built its second line into Florida, the Waycross Short Line.This line ran from the Plant system's main line (the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway) at Waycross southeast to Jacksonville, Florida, which was becoming a major rail junction and shipping port.