The Hartwell Railroad dates to 1878 when the company was chartered to build a
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Places
* Hartwell, Victoria, a neighbourhood of Camberwell in Melbourne, Australia
** Hartwell railway station
England
* Hartwell, Buckinghamshire
* Hartwell, Northamptonshire, a village
* Hartwell, Staffordshire, a loca ...
and Bowersville in Hart County, Georgia. The 10-mile railroad was completed the following year. In 1898, it was reorganized as the Hartwell Railway. Southern Railway gained control of the line in 1902, had it converted to , and sold the line in 1924.
The Hartwell Railway's line today is operated by the Great Walton Railroad
The Great Walton Railroad is a class III railroad that operates of track in Georgia, United States. In addition to its own line between Monroe and Social Circle, Georgia, the railroad operates the Athens Line, LLC and the Hartwell Railroad.
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, based in Social Circle, Georgia
Social Circle is a city in southern Walton County, extending into Newton County, in the U.S. state of Georgia, 45 miles east of Atlanta.
History
It is unclear why the name "Social Circle" was applied to this place. According to tradition, Soc ...
, which also operates Athens Line, LLC. In the Jackson County, Georgia community of Center, the Hartwell Railway connects with 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 ...
.
Currently, the rail line along Highway 51, including the Depot and Platform are being rented t
TORCH of Hartwell, Inc
TORCH of Hartwell, Inc. plans on revitalizing the rail line into a community park with the support of grants, The City of Hartwell and residents.
The railroad's roster consists of older EMD 4-axle locomotives still in the paint schemes of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, Conrail, and Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
References
2. History of Hartwell Railroad
* Storey, Steve,
'. Retrieved August 31, 2005.
External links
Athens Banner-Herald: Side Tracks, Short-line rail companies weight on routes that otherwise might have been abandoned
* ttp://hawkinsrails.net/shortlines/hrt/hrt.htm HawkinsRails Hartwell pages
Georgia (U.S. state) railroads
Transportation in Hart County, Georgia
Non-operating common carrier freight railroads in the United States
Narrow gauge railroads in Georgia (U.S. state)
3 ft gauge railways in the United States
Hartwell, Georgia
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