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The Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway emerged from the 1877 re-organization of the
Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway Organized in 1870, the Atlanta and Richmond Air–Line Railway combined the Georgia Air Line Railroad and the Air Line Railroad in South Carolina under president Algernon S. Buford. The line was complete by 1873 but went broke the next year when i ...
. Later, in 1894, it became part of the Southern Railway. It was finally merged into the
Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the United States formed in 1982 with the merger of Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. With headquarters in Atlanta, the company operates 19,420 route miles (31 ...
in 1996. The line is currently used by
Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...
's Crescent service, previously known as the Southern Crescent.


See also

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Airline Belle The ''Airline Belle'' or ''Air-line Belle'' was a steam passenger train running between Atlanta and Toccoa, Georgia, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway (later the Southern Railway) between 1879 and 1931. Its route was long with 39 ...
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References

Predecessors of the Southern Railway (U.S.) Defunct Georgia (U.S. state) railroads Railway lines in Atlanta Railway companies established in 1877 Railway companies disestablished in 1996 Defunct South Carolina railroads Defunct North Carolina railroads American companies established in 1877 {{GeorgiaUS-transport-stub