List of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad precursors
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These railroads were bought, leased, or in other ways had their track come under ownership or lease by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad later merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
.
The Georgia Railroad was partly owned by the ACL.
The ACL gained stock control of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
in 1902; see List of Louisville and Nashville Railroad precursors.
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad
Manchester and Augusta Railroad
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was an American railroad that existed between 1900 and 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, its long-time rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad...
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The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad later merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad , which styled itself "The Route of Courteous Service," was an American railroad whose corporate existence extended from April 14, 1900, until July 1, 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, its longtime rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line...
to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was a former Class I railroad company operating in the Southeastern United States beginning in 1967. Its passenger operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971...
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The Georgia Railroad was partly owned by the ACL.
The ACL gained stock control of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.Chartered by the state of Kentucky in 1850, the L&N, as it was generally known, grew into one of the great success stories of American business...
in 1902; see List of Louisville and Nashville Railroad precursors.
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast RailroadAtlanta, Birmingham and Coast RailroadThe 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 1946, the AB&C was bought by the ACL and the became the latter company's...
- Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
- Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic RailroadAtlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic RailroadThe Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway was formed in 1914 as a reorganization of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad, which had been created in 1905 to purchase the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway and extend its track into Birmingham, Alabama, from an end point at Montezuma, Georgia...
- Alabama Northern Railway
- Alabama Terminal Railroad
- Atlantic and Birmingham RailwayAtlantic and Birmingham RailwayThe Atlantic and Birmingham Railway was originally chartered in 1887 as the Waycross Air Line Railroad. In 1901, the original charter was amended for an extension to Birmingham and the railroad's name was changed to the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad...
- Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf RailwayTifton, Thomasville and Gulf RailwayThe Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Railway was chartered on June 26, 1897 and operated from Tifton, GA to Thomasville, GA in 1900. The TT&G was consolidated with the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad and the Tifton and Northeastern Railroad on December 3, 1903 to form the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway...
- Tifton and Northeastern RailroadTifton and Northeastern RailroadThe Tifton and Northeastern Railroad was chartered on October 15, 1891 and built a 25 mile line from Tifton, Georgia, United States to Fitzgerald, Georgia in 1896. The T&N was consolidated with the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad and the Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Railway on December 3, 1903 to...
- Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad
- Waycross Air Line RailroadWaycross Air Line RailroadOriginally chartered on October 24, 1887, the Waycross Air Line Railroad began operations between Waycross, GA to Sessoms, GA in 1890. In 1901, the railroad had extended as far as Fitzgerald, GA at which time its charter was amended for an extension to Birmingham, AL and it was renamed the...
- Waycross Air Line Railroad
- Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad
- Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Railway
- Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
Cheraw and Darlington RailroadCheraw and Darlington RailroadThe Cheraw and Darlington Railroad was a shortline railroad that served South Carolina and, later, North Carolina, beginning before the American Civil War....
- Cheraw and Salisbury RailroadCheraw and Salisbury RailroadThe Cheraw and Salisburg Railroad was a shortline railroad that ran between Cheraw, South Carolina, and Wadesboro, North Carolina.The Cheraw and Salisbury Company was originally incorporated by special charter in 1857 as the Cheraw and Coalfields Railroad...
- Cheraw and Coal Fields Railroad
- Hartsville RailroadHartsville RailroadThe Hartsville Railroad was a railroad that served eastern South Carolina in the late 19th century.The Hartsville Railroad Company was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1884, with the goal of constructing a line starting from Hartsville, South Carolina.The line was completed in...
Manchester and Augusta RailroadManchester and Augusta RailroadThe Manchester and Augusta Railroad was a Southeastern railroad that operated following the American Civil War.The Manchester and Augusta Railroad was chartered in the 1870s, and built a line from Sumter, South Carolina, southwest to Denmark, South Carolina....
- Charleston and Northern RailroadCharleston and Northern RailroadThe Charleston and Northern Railroad was a South Carolina railroad company that existed briefly the end of the 19th century.The Charleston and Northern was created after the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad bought the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad in October 1894, and the following year...
- Charleston, Sumter and Northern RailroadCharleston, Sumter and Northern RailroadThe Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad was a South Carolina railroad that operated at the end of the 19th century.The line was originally chartered in 1885 by the South Carolina General Assembly as the Eutawville Railroad....
- Eutawville RailroadEutawville RailroadThe Eutawville Railroad was a South Carolina railroad company chartered near the end of the 19th century.The line was chartered in 1885 by the South Carolina General Assembly....
- Eutawville Railroad
- Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad
- South and North Carolina RailroadSouth and North Carolina RailroadThe South and North Carolina Railroad was a railroad that served South Carolina in the late 10th century.The line had been chartered by the The South and North Carolina Railroad was a railroad that served South Carolina in the late 10th century....
- Bishopville RailroadBishopville RailroadThe Bishopville Railroad was a shortline railroad that served central South Carolina in the late 19th century.The Bishopville Railroad Company was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1882....
- Bishopville Railroad
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta RailroadWilmington, Columbia and Augusta RailroadThe Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad was a Southeastern United States railroad that served South Carolina and North Carolina during the second half of the 19th century....
- Columbia and Sumter RailroadColumbia and Sumter RailroadThe Columbia and Sumter Railroad was a South Carolina railroad that operated immediately after the American Civil War.The Columbia and Sumter Railroad was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1866....
- Wilmington and Carolina RailroadWilmington and Carolina RailroadThe Wilmington and Carolina Railroad was a South Carolina railroad company formed in January 1870 when the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad was reorganized. It lasted until April 1870, when the company was reorganized again as the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad....
- Wilmington and Manchester RailroadWilmington and Manchester RailroadThe Wilmington and Manchester Railroad was a railroad that served South Carolina and North Carolina before, during and after the American Civil War...
- Wilmington Railway Bridge Company
- Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
- Wilmington and Conway RailroadWilmington and Conway RailroadThe Wilmington and Conway Railroad was a short-lived Southeastern railroad that operated in South Carolina and North Carolina near the end of the 19th century....
- Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway RailroadWilmington, Chadbourn and Conway RailroadThe Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway Railroad was a Southeastern railroad that operated in South Carolina and North Carolina near the end of the 19th century.The Chadbourn Lumber Company of Chadbourn, North Carolina, built the line to haul timber....
- Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conwayboro Railroad
- Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway Railroad
Norfolk and Carolina Railroad
- Chowan and Southern Railroad
- Western Branch Railway
Richmond and Petersburg RailroadRichmond and Petersburg RailroadRichmond and Petersburg Railroad was a regional railroad serving east-central Virginia. It was strategically important to the Confederacy during the American Civil War, when it provided a vital supply and transportation route in late 1864 and early 1865 for Robert E...
- Petersburg RailroadPetersburg RailroadPetersburg Railroad was chartered in 1830 and opened in 1833. It ran from Petersburg, Virginia south to Garysburg, North Carolina, from which it ran to Weldon via trackage rights over the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad...
- Greenville and Roanoke Railroad
- Petersburg and Western Railroad
- Petersburg and Asylum Railway
Wilmington and Weldon RailroadWilmington and Weldon RailroadOriginally chartered in 1835 as the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad, the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad name began use in 1855. At the time of its 1840 completion, the line was the longest railroad in the world with 161.5 miles of track...
- Albemarle and Raleigh Railroad
- Seaboard and Raleigh Railroad
- Williamston and Tarboro Railroad
- Seaboard and Raleigh Railroad
- Clinton and Warsaw Railroad
- Clinton and Faison Railroad
- Midland North Carolina Railway
- Southeastern Railroad
- Wilmington and Newbern Railroad
- Wilmington, Newbern and Norfolk Railroad
- East Carolina Land and Railway CompanyEast Carolina Land and Railway CompanyThe East Carolina Land and Railway Company was chartered by Craven County, North Carolina, and the city of New Bern in 1887 to construct a rail line connecting New Bern with Jacksonville, North Carolina. $60,000 was asked for the rail line from the county, plus an additional $40,000 to extend the...
- Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina RailroadWilmington, Onslow and East Carolina RailroadThe Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina Railroad was incorporated by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1885 and existed until 1893, when it was merged into the Wilmington, Newbern and Norfolk Railroad. It eventually became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad....
- East Carolina Land and Railway Company
- Wilmington, Newbern and Norfolk Railroad
- Wilmington and Raleigh RailroadWilmington and Raleigh RailroadChartered in 1834, the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad began operations in 1840 between Wilmington, North Carolina and Weldon, NC. With 161.5 miles of track, it is said to have been the longest railroad in the world at the time of its completion....
- Halifax and Weldon Railroad
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway
- Augusta Terminal Company
- Port Royal and Augusta RailwayPort Royal and Augusta RailwayThe Port Royal and Augusta Railway was a South Carolina railroad that existed in the latter half of the 19th century.The Port Royal Railroad Company was chartered in 1856 and the line was completed in 1870...
- Port Royal RailroadPort Royal RailroadThe Port Royal Railroad was a South Carolina railroad that was constructed following the American Civil War.The line was chartered in 1856 but wasn't built until 1870. By 1871 it ran from Port Royal, South Carolina, to Yemassee, South Carolina, extended to Augusta, Georgia, in 1873...
- Port Royal Railroad
- Port Royal and Western Carolina RailwayPort Royal and Western Carolina RailwayThe Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway was a Southestern railroad company formed in 1886 by the merger of the Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad, the Savannah Valley Railroad and the Greenville and Laurens Railroad, which then joined with Port Royal...
- Augusta and Knoxville RailroadAugusta and Knoxville RailroadThe Augusta and Knoxville Railroad was chartered in 1877 and opened a line in 1882, stretching between Augusta, Georgia, and Greenwood, South Carolina. In 1886, it was merged with three other companies to form the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway, which was reorganized in 1896 as the...
- Greenville and Laurens RailroadGreenville and Laurens RailroadThe Greenville and Laurens Railroad was a railroad that served the South Carolina Upstate region in the late 19th century.The Greenville and Laurens was chartered in 1878 and arrived in Greenville in 1882....
- Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg RailroadGreenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg RailroadThe Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad was a South Carolina railroad company begun after Reconstruction.The Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1880....
- Savannah Valley Railroad
- Augusta and Knoxville Railroad
Florida Southern Railroad
- Florida Southern Railway
- Gainesville, Ocala and Charlotte Harbor Railroad
- St. Johns and Lake Eustis Railway (leased)
- Yalaha and Western Railroad
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
- Abbeville Southern RailwayAbbeville Southern RailwayThe Abbeville Southern Railway was incorporated in Alabama in September 1892 for the purpose of building a branch line from a connection with the Alabama Midland Railway at Grimes, Alabama towards Abbeville, Alabama. The route was completed in December 1893, totaling , and was operated by the...
- Alabama Midland RailwayAlabama Midland RailwayThe Alabama Midland Railway was incorporated in Alabama and Georgia in 1887, and built a line from Bainbridge, Georgia to a point near Montgomery, Alabama. The route was completed in 1890...
- Northwestern and Florida Railroad
- Montgomery and Florida Railway
- Montgomery Southern Railway
- Montgomery and Florida Railway
- Northwestern and Florida Railroad
- Albany and Gulf Railroad
- Ashley River RailroadAshley River RailroadThe Ashley River Railroad was a shortline railroad that served the South Carolina Lowcountry region in the late 19th century.The Ashley River Railroad was incorporated by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1875 and, according to an article in the New York Times in late December 1877, the line...
- Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
- Pensacola and Georgia RailroadPensacola and Georgia RailroadThe Pensacola and Georgia Railroad was a railroad line chartered in January 1853 that, by 1863, ran from Tallahassee, Florida east to Lake City, Florida and west to Quincy, Florida...
(only sold to Atlantic and Gulf Railroad from Live Oak, FloridaLive Oak, FloridaLive Oak is a city in Suwannee County, Florida. The city is the county seat of Suwannee County and is located east of Tallahassee, Florida. The population was 6,480 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 6,828 ....
to the Florida/Georgia state line) - Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad
- Savannah and Albany Railroad
- South Georgia and Florida Railroad
- Pensacola and Georgia Railroad
- Brunswick and Western RailroadBrunswick and Western RailroadThe Brunswick and Western Railroad was formed in 1882 through a reorganization of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad. It ran of track between Albany and Brunswick, Georgia, USA. In 1888, the railroad was purchased by the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad and was fully integrated into the...
- Brunswick and Albany RailroadBrunswick and Albany RailroadOrganized in 1869, the Brunswick and Albany Railroad was created to take over operation of the Brunswick and Florida Railroad which was a casualty of the civil war. Apparently the Confederate States of America took portions of the B&F rail line for use in other more strategic lines...
- Brunswick and Florida RailroadBrunswick and Florida RailroadThe Brunswick and Florida Railroad was chartered in 1835 and was originally planned to run from several areas in Southern Georgia and Northern Florida to Brunswick, Georgia. By 1859, the railroad stretched from Brunswick to Glenmore, Georgia, where it connected with the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad...
- Brunswick and Florida Railroad
- Brunswick and Albany Railroad
- Charleston and Savannah RailwayCharleston and Savannah RailwayThe Charleston and Savannah Railway was a 19th-century American railroad serving the coastal states of South Carolina and Georgia and running through part of the South Carolina Lowcountry....
- Savannah and Charleston Railroad
- Charleston and Savannah Railroad
- Savannah and Charleston Railroad
- Chattahoochee and East Pass Railway
- East Florida RailwayEast Florida RailwayThe East Florida Railway was incorporated* to build a railroad from Jacksonville, in Duval county, to Calico Hill, on the St. Marys river, in Nassau county.Florida state law chapter ?, approved March 4, 1881, established land grants for the railroad...
- Greenpond, Walterboro and Branchville Railroad
- Greenpond, Walterboro and Branchville Railway
- Walterboro and Western Railroad
- Greenpond, Walterboro and Branchville Railway
- Jacksonville and St. Johns River Railway
- Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West RailwayJacksonville, Tampa and Key West RailwayThe Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway was a railroad and steamboat network in Florida, USA at the end of the 19th century. Most of its lines became part of the Plant System in 1899 and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902.-History:...
- Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railway (later sold to the Florida East Coast RailwayFlorida East Coast RailwayThe Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida; in the past, it has been a Class I railroad.Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a project of Standard Oil principal Henry Morrison...
) - DeLand and St. John's River Railroad
- Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic RailroadOrange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic RailroadThe Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic Railroad was a railroad in Central Florida, United States, linking DeLand with the main line . It opened in 1884...
- Orange Ridge, DeLand and Atlantic Railroad
- Jupiter and Lake Worth Railroad
- Palatka and Indian River Railway
- Tampa, Peace Creek and St. Johns River Railroad
- Atlantic Coast, St. Johns and Indian River Railway (later sold to the Florida East Coast Railway
- Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway
- Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railroad
- Live Oak, Tampa and Charlotte Harbor Railroad
- Sanford and Lake Eustis Railroad
- Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf RailroadSilver Springs, Ocala and Gulf RailroadThe Silver Springs, Ocala, and Gulf Railroad was assigned land grants on March 12, 1879 by the state legislature of Florida. This was accomplished by Florida State Law Chapter 3170. This law required a set completion time in order for the land grant measures to take effect...
- South Florida RailroadSouth Florida RailroadThe South Florida Railroad was a railroad from Orlando to Tampa, Florida, becoming part of the Plant System in 1893 and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902.-History:...
- Sanford and Indian River Railroad
- St. Cloud and Sugar Belt Railway
- Southwestern Alabama RailwaySouthwestern Alabama RailwayThe Southwestern Alabama Railway was incorporated in Alabama in 1897 and tasked with construction of a branch line from a connection with the Alabama Midland Railway near Newton, Alabama towards Elba, Alabama. The route was completed to Elba in October 1898, totaled , and was operated by the...
- Tampa and Thonotosassa Railroad
- Waycross and Florida Railroad