Bainbridge Northeastern Railway

The Bainbridge Northeastern Railway was a railway company in southern Georgia that ran 18 miles (29 km) between Swindell Landing and Mount Royal, USA, starting in 1908.[1] It lasted only two years before it was abandoned.

History

The railroad company was chartered on September 7, 1907, and incorporated on September 14, 1907, in Atlanta with a capital stock of $200,000 to build a 70-mile long (110 km) line from Bainbridge, Georgia, across the Florida panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico.[2][3][4][5] One of the main incorporators, E. Swindell, also owned a logging railroad called the Georgia Eastern Railway, that was intended to be purchased by Bainbridge Northeastern.[1]

The Bainbridge Northeastern entered receivership in May 1908 because the company was, as its receiver put it, "... so intimately connected with the affairs of E. Swindell & Co." although the ownership of the railroad's infrastructure was still unclear.[6] The appointed receiver was J.M. Wilkinson, who was third vice president of the Georgia and Florida Railway.[7]

The line was built out to about 15 miles (24 km) by 1910.[8]

References
  1. "Financial & Corporate: Bainbridge Northeastern". The Railway Age. Vol. XLV no. 14. April 3, 1908. p. 515 – via Google Books.
  2. "Charter Granted New Road Which Will Cross Florida". Pensacola News Journal. September 18, 1907. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "New railroad is chartered". The Atlanta Constitution. September 8, 1907. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "New Georgia Railroad". The Times. Shreveport, LA. September 9, 1907. p. 8 – via Newspaper.com.
  5. "New Roads and Projects". The Railway and Engineering Review. Chicago: The Railway Review, Inc. September 21, 1907. p. 836 – via Google Books.
  6. "Financial and Corporate: Bainbridge Northeastern". The Railway Age. Vol. XLV no. 20. May 15, 1908. p. 713 – via Google Books.
  7. "Bainbridge Northeastern". Manufacturer's Record. Vol. LII no. 18. Baltimore, MD: Manufacturers' Record Publishing Co. May 14, 1908. p. 50 – via Google Books.
  8. Division of Statistics, United States Interstate Commerce Commission (1912). Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. p. 242 – via Google Books.
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