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The Georgia Pacific Railway was a railway company chartered on December 31, 1881, consolidating the Georgia Western Railroad and the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company of Alabama. The Georgia Western Railroad was chartered by the Georgia Legislature in 1854, incorporated by Richard Peters , Lemuel Grant , and other prominent Atlantans.
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway: Georgia Pacific Railroad: SOU: 1876 1882 Georgia Pacific Railway: Georgia Pacific Railway: SOU: 1882 1894 Southern Railway: Georgia Western Railroad: SOU: 1854 1877 Georgia Pacific Railroad: Georgia Pine Railway: SAL: 1895 1901 Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railway: Georgia Southern Railroad: SOU: 1875 1880
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway: Columbus, Fayette and Decatur Railroad: SOU: 1871 1881 Georgia Pacific Railway: Columbus and Western Railway: CG: 1880 1888 Savannah and Western Railroad: Decatur, Chesapeake and New Orleans Railway: L&N: 1887 1893 Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway: DeKalb and Western Railroad: 1916 N/A East ...
Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) Central of Georgia Railway; Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) Central Railroad of New Jersey (Jersey Central) (CNJ) Central Vermont (CV) Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ) Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW) Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW)
It was the result of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing, which set off a series of bank failures. One-quarter of U.S. railroads had failed by mid-1894, representing over 40,000 miles (64,000 km). The failed lines included the Northern Pacific Railway, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad ...
In winter 1859-1860, Judah was in Washington D.C. lobbying for a Pacific Railroad bill; [18] California would hold a Pacific Railroad Convention in Sacramento on the first Monday that February. [19] Judah returned to California by July, [20] lobbied local newspapers for public support, [21] [22] and surveyed routes to at least [23] three [24 ...
May 1: The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (later Amtrak), listed as Class I until about 1980, takes over most intercity passenger trains in the U.S. Notable exceptions are the Southern Railway and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, which joined Amtrak in 1979 and 1983 respectively, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ...
12 at East Broad Top Railroad, a narrow gauge railway headquartered in Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, which has six preserved Mikado locomotives, all built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, and six others. The railroad operated from 1871 to 1956. It operated as a heritage railroad from 1960 until 2011, and was reopened in 2021 as a tourist attraction.