[1][2] The name refers to the city of West Point, Georgia, where the two railroads met.
Until the 1960s, the route carried Southern Railway passenger trains, such as the Crescent and the Piedmont Limited on New York to New Orleans service.
Major station stops, southwest from Atlanta's Terminal Station were in Georgia: Newman, LaGrange, West Point, in Alabama: Opelika, Auburn, Chehaw and Montgomery.
[4] Passenger trains continued west beyond Montgomery to Mobile and New Orleans on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
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