Atlanta and West Point Railroad

The company was chartered in 1847 as the Atlanta and LaGrange Rail Road and renamed in 1857; construction of the 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge[2] line was begun in 1849–50 and completed in May 1854.

From 1886 onward the AWP and the Western operated essentially as one railroad under the name "West Point Route".

Those identities became "fallen flags" when the group was renamed Seaboard System Railroad (SBD).

(The Central of Georgia's Man o' War continued to operate for several more months over the A&WP rail line.)

The Atlanta & West Point name ended in June 1983, when the railroad company was absorbed by the Seaboard System.

1918 map of the railroad
A 4-4-0 locomotive of the A. & WPT. R. R. (foreground) in the ruined roundhouse of Atlanta, Georgia shortly after the end of the Civil War. (All other rolling stock either without identifyable marking or Ga. R. R. )
A AWP Mikado at Lima plant in 1918.
A short AWP passenger train at Crawford, GA, station on November 24, 1967
The preserved Fairburn station building in 2014