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Pages in category "Narrow gauge railroads in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Columbus and Rome Railway; E.
The Augusta, Gibson and Sandersville Railroad was incorporated in 1884 and began operating from Augusta to Gibson and Sandersville, Georgia, in 1885 and 1886, respectively. In 1893, it went bankrupt and was reorganized as the Augusta Southern Railroad. The line ran as 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge until 1895. [1]
The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...
The Columbus and Rome Railway is a historic, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge [1] railroad that operated in the U.S. state of Georgia.. Chartered in 1871 as the North and South Railroad of Georgia, the Columbus and Rome Railway opened in 1873 with a 20-mile (32 km) line going north out of Columbus, Georgia.
The North and South Railroad of Georgia was chartered in 1870 to build a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad from Columbus to Rome, Georgia. In 1878, after building about 20 miles (32 km), the railroad went bankrupt and was reorganized as the Columbus and Rome Railway [ 1 ] in 1879.
The Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern Railroad was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in the U.S. state of Georgia. It was chartered in 1872 and upon completion March 11, 1884, consisted of two lines from Gainesville to Jefferson and Social Circle, splitting at Belmont. Its first president was Colonel Ira Yale Sage. [1]
Merging with the Georgia and North Carolina Railroad necessitated another slight name change, to the Marietta and North Georgia Railway rather than the previous Railroad. It was converted from three-foot (775mm) narrow gauge to standard gauge as far north as Blue Ridge, Georgia in 1890, and from there to Murphy in 1897.
The rusting remains of an 0-4-0 narrow gauge locomotive is still present at Ocean Harbour. [2]: 147 A light railway was also provided at the scientific station of Discovery House during its establishment in 1923–1925. [2]: 134–135 Railway use began to decline in South Georgia when tractor imports became common in the 1950s.