Overview | |
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Headquarters | Panama City, Florida |
Reporting mark | BAYL |
Locale | Florida Panhandle and southeastern Alabama |
Dates of operation | 1994 | –present
Predecessor | Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
Length | 182 miles (293 km) |
Other | |
Website | Official website |
The Bay Line Railroad (reporting mark BAYL) is one of several short line railroad companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It operates between Panama City, Florida, and Dothan, Alabama, including a branch from Grimes to Abbeville, Alabama, reached via trackage rights on CSX's Dothan Subdivision between Dothan and Grimes. The line interchanges with CSX at Cottondale, Florida and Dothan, Alabama, and with the Hilton & Albany Railroad at Hilton, Georgia. [1]
A wide variety of commodities is carried, including aggregates, brick, cement, chemicals, coal, food and feed products, forest products, metallic ores and minerals, steel, and scrap.[2]