The West Point Route: ATLANTA & WEST POINT and Western Railway of ALABAMA, NEW

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The West Point Route:
The Atlanta & West Point Rail Road and The Western Railway of Alabama
by Robert H. Hanson
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The West Point Route consisted of the
Western Railway of Alabama
and
The Atlanta & West Point Rail Road
, operating in Georgia & Alabama.
Once considered by David Morgan of
Trains
magazine to be the "All American Railroad" but not selected because of its short 225-mile length, it had full blown passenger and freight service.
Controlled by
Atlantic Coast Line
with
Southern
, forwarding such trains as the
Piedmont Limited
and
The Crescent
.
This book gives a detailed, cogent, and well-documented history of the well-known but little understood operation.
The Atlanta and West Point Rail Road and the Western Railway of Alabama had a diamond-shaped herald and was carried throughout the land by boxcars, gondolas, and timetables.
It was a component of a major transcontinental passenger route, forwarding trains such as the Crescent and the Piedmont Limited, but few people outside the area, or the railroad industry, knew about the two companies that made up what was essentially one railroad.
Although it was controlled by three major railroads (
Atlantic Coast Line
,
Louisville & Nashville
and
Central of Georgia
), its passenger operations were most closely co-ordinated with another, corporately unrelated carrier (
Southern Railway
).
The West Point Route was not as well-known as either of its major passenger connections – the Southern or the L&N – but as the last General Passenger Agent A. A. Ward once said, “It was a classy little railroad.”
Contents:
Ch. 1: The Early Years
Ch. 2: The War Years (Civil War)
Ch. 3: Reconstruction & West Point Railroad
Ch. 4: Into the 20th Century
Ch. 5: The Teens & the Twenties
Ch. 6: Depression & War
Ch. 7: The Postwar Era
Ch. 8: Family Lines & Seaboard System
Ch. 9: Sandhouse Stories (personal reminiscences)
Ch. 10: Passenger Trains
Ch. 11: Station List
Ch. 12: Locomotive Rosters
Ch. 13: Freight and Passenger Equipment
Ch. 14: The Flight of the Midnight Mail
Ch. 15: Color Section
Bibliography
Hardbound, 8.5x11, 192 pages, b&w photographs, text, captions and COLOR photo section.
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