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The Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway (reporting mark CCKY) is a short-line railroad which is headquartered in LaFayette, Georgia, USA.The railroad operated 22 miles (35 km) of the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (a.k.a. the TAG route) from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Kensington, Georgia, which reverted to the Norfolk Southern System and was partially removed after the Dow Reichhold ...
This train ride begins at Chattanooga’s Grand Junction Station and embarks on a scenic two-hour travel along the former Central of Georgia Railroad to the historic Civil War town of Chickamauga ...
Both fires put the railway temporarily out of service, substitute service being provided by the Chattanooga Railway and Light Company's Lookout Mountain route. The railway was sold in the 1940s to Southern Coach Lines and is now operated by the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, the area's public transit agency. [5] [6]
In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western & Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia to provide a link between the port of Savannah and the Midwest. [5] The initial route of that state-sponsored project was to run from Chattanooga to a spot east of the Chattahoochee River, in present-day Fulton County.
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1917 map of the railroad. The Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad was created through a reorganization of the Chattanooga Southern Railway in 1911. A few years later, in 1922, the line's name was changed to the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (reporting mark TAG) and was also known as the TAG Route.
In spring 2021, Amtrak included the route in its 15-year "Amtrak Connects US" expansion vision. [3] The proposal calls for two round trips per day with a one-way trip time of 3 hours 6 minutes from Atlanta to Chattanooga, and 6 hours 34 minutes from Atlanta to Nashville.
The Chattanooga Southern Railway was founded in 1887 and began operations in 1891. It ran about 93 miles (150 km) of track between Chattanooga, Tennessee , and Gadsden, Alabama , hauling mainly iron, timber, and coal from the Lookout Mountain area.