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Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi
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1877
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1895 Southern Railway subsidiary
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The Company, Ltd., (AGS) a
British company, was organized in 1877 by railroad investor
Emile Erlanger as the successor to the
Alabama And Chattanooga Railroad (A&C). The A&C had completed about 230
Mile s of a planned 293-mile line from
Chattanooga to
Meridian, Mississippi . About 25 of these miles were in
Georgia , including a section from
Trenton to
Wauhatchie that had been built in 1860 as the
Wills Valley Railroad .
In the late
Nineteenth Century , the AGS was one of the five railroads that comprised the Queen and Crescent Route between
Cincinnati , the Queen City of the Midwest, and
New Orleans , the Crescent City.
In April, 1890 the
East Tennesee, Virginia And Georgia Railway (ETV&G) and the
Richmond And Danville Railroad (R&D) purchased a controlling interest in the AGS. After 1895 it was controlled by the
Southern Railway , successor to the R&D and ETV&G. Today it is in operation as a division of
Norfolk Southern Railway .
Poor’s 1917 Manual indicated the company had 90
Locomotive s and over 5000
Railroad Car s.
