Georgia Northern Railway

Georgia Northern Railway

In the early 1890s, the Pidcock Family founded a private logging railroad that ran North out of Pidcock, Georgia. The Pidcocks purchased the failed Boston and Albany Railroad (Georgia) and combined their assets into the Georgia Northern Railway. The railroad was operating between Albany, GA and Boston, GA by 1905 then began purchasing other railroads. It bought the Flint River and North Eastern Railroad in 1910, the Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester and Camilla Railway in 1922, and the Georgia, Southwestern and Gulf Railroad in 1939. The coterie of roads became known as the Pidcock Kingdom shortlines in Sowega.

The Southern Railway took over the Georgia Northern in 1966, fully merging it with the Albany and Northern Railway and the GAS&C (apparently included in the GN purchase) in 1972, but maintaining the GN name for the subsidiary. It was eventually merged into the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad on December 31, 1993.


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