The Tifton and Northeastern Railroad was a railroad running from Tifton, Georgia northeast to Fitzgerald, Georgia, a distance of 25 miles.
[1] The company's first president was Captain Henry Tift, who founded the town of Tifton and operated a sawmill there.
[3] Both the Tifton and Northeastern Railroad and the Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Railway were acquired by the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad on December 3, 1903, which was renamed the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway (A&B).
This gave the Atlantic and Birmingham a continuous branch line, known as the Thomasville Branch, from Fitzgerald (where it connected to the rest of the A&B network) to Thomasville.
[4] The AB&A ran daily passenger trains from Atlanta to Thomasville via Fitzgerald and Tifton on the former Tifton and Northeastern Railroad line.