Empire and Dublin Railroad
The Empire and Dublin Railroad was a company that operated in Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1888, it completed building a road from Hawkinsville to Dublin, Georgia, in 1890.[1] A receiver was appointed the same year.[1]
It began by using a former logging railroad owned by the Empire Lumber Company that ran about 11 miles (18 km) between Empire and Dublin, then rebuilding and extending it to Hawkinsville.[citation needed]
When the Empire Lumber Company failed, the Empire and Dublin Railroad was sold at auction for $30,100,[2] and was reorganized as the Oconee and Western Railroad in 1892.[3]
References
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- ^ a b "EMPIRE AND DUBLIN RAILROAD COMPANY". Poor's Manual of Railroads. New York Poor's Pub. Co. 1892. p. 226.
- ^ "The Georgia End – Of a Big Failure – The Empire Lumber Company Again". Chattanooga Daily Times. July 6, 1895. Retrieved April 8, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "EMPIRE AND DUBLIN. The Road Reorganized Under the Name of the Oconee and Western". The Savannah Morning News. October 12, 1892. Retrieved April 8, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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