Bay Line Railroad
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| Reporting mark | BAYL |
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| Locale | Florida Panhandle and southeastern Alabama |
| Dates of operation | 1994– |
| Predecessor | Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) |
| Length | 103 miles (166 km) |
| Headquarters | Panama City, Florida |
| Website | Official website |
The Bay Line Railroad (reporting mark BAYL) is one of several short line railroad companies owned by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. It operates between Panama City, Florida, and Dothan, Alabama, including a branch from Grimes to Abbeville, Alabama, reached via trackage rights on CSX's Dothan Subdivision between Dothan and Grimes. The line interchanges with CSX's P&A Subdivision at Cottondale, Florida, and their Dothan Subdivision at the trackage rights section near Dothan, Alabama. It also interchanges with the Chattahoochee Bay Railroad in Dothan.
A wide variety of commodities are carried, including aggregates, brick, cement, chemicals, coal, food and feed products, forest products, metallic ores and minerals, steel, and scrap.[1]
History
The company's main line between Panama City and Dothan was constructed in 1906–1908 by the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad (ASAB).[2] The Abbeville branch was constructed in 1887–1893 by the Alabama Midland Railway and came under the control of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902.[3] CSX Transportation, eventual successor to the ACL, sold the line to the Abbeville–Grimes Railway Company (AG) in 1989.[4] This company was merged with the Bay Line Railroad on June 26, 1996.[5]
The Stone Container Corporation had owned the ASAB since 1987.[6] Effective January 1, 1994, it sold the assets of the railroad to Rail Management Corporation, which created the new Bay Line Railroad company to operate it.[7] Genesee & Wyoming acquired all the assets of Rail Management on June 1, 2005, including the Bay Line Railroad.[8]
Notes
- ↑ "Bay Line Railroad". Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
- ↑ Moody's 1921, p. 352
- ↑ Owens 1921, p. 71
- ↑ Lewis 1991, p. 8
- ↑ "STB Finance Docket No. 19936". 21 June 1996. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
- ↑ Smiley 1989
- ↑ Lewis 1996, pp. 40–41
- ↑ "Genesse & Wyoming to Acquire Assets of Rail Management Corporation". Retrieved 26 November 2010.
References
- Lewis, Edward A. (1991). American Shortline Railway Guide (4th ed.). Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 0-89024-109-0. OCLC 25150373.
- Lewis, Edward A. (1996). American Shortline Railway Guide (5th ed.). Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 0-89024-290-9. OCLC 35286187.
- Moody's Investor Service (1921). Moody's Manual of Investments, American and Foreign: Transportation.
- Owen, Thomas M. (1921). History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. 1. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.
- Smiley, Tom (1989). "Modeling the Bay Line Railroad". Prototype Modeler (January/February): 20–27.
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