Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway explained

Railroad Name:Atlanta and Richmond Air–Line Railway
Start Year:1870
End Year:1876
Successor Line:Southern Railway
Locale:Georgia

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 it was re-organized into the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway.

It later became part of the Southern Railway.

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