Chartered in 1903, the Ocilla and Valdosta Railroad had originally planned on building a railroad from
Macon, GA
Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is located southeast of Atlanta and lies near the geographic center of the state of Geo ...
to
Valdosta, GA
Valdosta is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. As of 2019, Valdosta had an estimated population of 56,457.
Valdosta is the principal city of the Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in 2021 had a ...
. In 1905 it acquired track between
Broxton, GA and
Hazlehurst, GA from the
Broxton, Hazlehurst and Savannah Railroad. By 1906 it was operating between Broxton and
Ocilla, GA and was constructing track to
Fitzgerald, GA. The O&V then ran into financial trouble and sold the Broxton to Hazlehurst section to the
Douglas, Augusta and Gulf Railway
The Douglas, Augusta & Gulf Railway was created as a subsidiary of the Georgia & Florida Railway (G&F) to consolidate lines of several smaller railroads.
It started in 1905 by acquiring the Barrows Bluff to Douglas, Georgia line that was from the ...
in 1907 and the next year the remainder of the O&V was sold to the
Fitzgerald, Ocilla and Broxton Railroad.
Defunct Georgia (U.S. state) railroads
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