Airline Belle

Airline Belle
Overview
Service typeInter-city rail
StatusDiscontinued
LocaleGeorgia
First service1879
Last service1931
Former operator(s)Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway (1879-1894)
Southern Railway (1894-1931)
Route
TerminiAtlanta, Georgia
Toccoa, Georgia
Stops39
Distance travelled93 mi (150 km)

The Airline Belle or Air-line Belle was a steam passenger train running between Atlanta and Toccoa, Georgia, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway (later the Southern Railway) between 1879 and 1931.[citation needed] Its route was 93 miles (150 km) long with 39 stops including (not all in order):

39 stops

  • Terminal Station (Atlanta)
  • Easton, a settlement located in today's Ansley Park neighborhood of Atlanta
  • Armour Station, mile 6.1
  • Ottley, mile 9.8
  • Goodwin's Crossing (or "Goodwin's" or "Goodwin Station"), in today's Brookhaven area, mile 11
  • Roswell Junction, mile 13
  • Doraville, mile 15
  • Chamblee
  • Norcross, mile 19
  • Duluth, mile 25
  • Suwanee, mile 31
  • Buford, mile 38
  • Flowery Branch, mile 44
  • Odell's, mile 47
  • Gainesville, mile 53
  • White Sulphur Springs, mile 60
  • Lula, mile 65
  • Bellton, mile 66
  • Rabun Cap Junction, mile 78
  • Mt. Airy, mile 80
  • Ayersville, mile 86
  • Carolina
  • Mechanicsville (Gwinnett County)
  • Beaver Dam
  • Carolina
  • Sugar Hill
  • Oakwood
  • Cagle
  • Raoul
  • New Switzerland
  • Alto
  • Toccoa, mile 93

References

  • "The Airline Belle Makes Final Run in North Georgia", Atlanta Journal, July 26, 1931
  • Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s, by Franklin M. Garrett.
  • Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948, by Clifford M. Kuhn.
  • Vardeman, Johnny. "Riders loved to commute on Airline Belle rail line". Gainesville Times, September 2, 2012.[permanent dead link]


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Named trains of the Southern Railway