Waycross Air Line Railroad

Waycross Air Line Railroad
Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad (1901–1903)
Atlantic and Birmingham Railway (1903–1906)
A CSX Transportation freight train in Cordele, Georgia on the former Waycross Air Line Railroad mainline
Overview
Current operatorCSX Transportation
Dates of operation1890–1906
SuccessorAtlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map

CSX
ANB 788.1
Manchester
Coleoatchee Creek
ANB 781.1
Woodland
ANB 770.3
Talbotton
Norfolk Southern Columbus District
ANB 762.1
Junction City
ANB 755.3
Mauk
ANB 750.9
Charing
ANB 745.9
Rupert
Cedar Creek
Sand Creek
ANB 736.6
Ideal
Buck Creek
Oglethorpe Yard
ANB 728.2
Oglethorpe
Norfolk Southern Albany District
ANB 726.3
Montezuma
ANB 717.5
Dooling
ANB 715.3
Byromville
Georgia 90.svg SR 90
ANB 710.0
Lilly
ANB 704.5
Vienna
Heart of Georgia Railroad
Norfolk Southern
ANB 694.7
Cordele
Heart of Georgia Railroad
Redoak Creek
ANB 672.8
Rebecca
Alapaha River
ANB 659.7
Fitzgerald
ANB 640.7
Ambrose
ANB 629.2
Douglas
Seventeen Mile River
ANB 615.9
Nicholls
ANB 613.0
Sessoms
fmr. Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad
Kettle Creek
Pearson Spur
ANB 586.5
Waycross
US 82.svg US 82 Georgia 520.svg SR 520
Thomasville-Jesup Wye (southern terminus)
CSX

The Waycross Air Line Railroad, chartered in 1887, was an air-line railroad in Georgia. It began operations between Waycross and Sessoms in 1890. In 1901, the railroad had extended as far as Fitzgerald, Georgia, at which time its charter was amended for an extension to Birmingham, Alabama, and it was renamed the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad. That company purchased the Tifton and Northeastern Railroad and Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Railway on December 3, 1903, changing its name to the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway. In 1906, the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway was in turn purchased by the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway, which continued expansion towards Birmingham.

The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway changed hands again in 1926, becoming the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad, a subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The original Waycross Air Line Railroad main line survived the 1967 ACL and SAL merger into the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, the acquisition of the Family Lines (CRR, L&N, GA, AWP) into the Seaboard System Railroad in 1982 and finally absorption into the Chessie System to become part of CSX in 1987. As of 2022, it remains in service as an important CSX Transportation line, known as the Fitzgerald Subdivision.