Airline Belle

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The Airline Belle or Air-line Belle was a steam passenger train running between Atlanta and Toccoa, Georgia, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway (later the Southern Railway) between 1879 and 1931.^{[citation needed]} Its route was 93 miles (150 km) long with 39 stops including (not all in order):

39 stops

• Terminal Station (Atlanta)
• Easton, a settlement located in today's Ansley Park neighborhood of Atlanta
• Armour Station
  , mile 6.1
• Ottley, mile 9.8
• Goodwin's Crossing (or "Goodwin's" or "Goodwin Station"), in today's Brookhaven area, mile 11
• Roswell Junction, mile 13
• Doraville, mile 15
• Chamblee
• Norcross, mile 19
• Duluth, mile 25
• Suwanee, mile 31
• Buford, mile 38
• Flowery Branch
  , mile 44
• Odell's, mile 47
• Gainesville, mile 53
• White Sulphur Springs, mile 60
• Lula, mile 65
• Bellton, mile 66
• Rabun Cap Junction, mile 78
• Mt. Airy, mile 80
• Ayersville, mile 86
• Carolina
• Mechanicsville (Gwinnett County)
• Beaver Dam
• Carolina
• Sugar Hill
• Oakwood
• Cagle
• Raoul
• New Switzerland
• Alto
• Toccoa, mile 93

References

• "The Airline Belle Makes Final Run in North Georgia", Atlanta Journal, July 26, 1931
• Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s, by Franklin M. Garrett.
• Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948, by Clifford M. Kuhn.
• Vardeman, Johnny. "Riders loved to commute on Airline Belle rail line". Gainesville Times, September 2, 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}