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Public Service Commission - Transportation - Western and Atlantic Railroad Reports

 Series
Identifier: 017-02-029

Scope and Contents

This series consists of two small bound volumes containing the Western & Atlantic Railroad Commissioners' reports describing in detail and giving full value to all property of the Western & Atlantic Railroad as it was leased out by the State of Georgia over a twenty year period. The inventories, compiled in 1870 and 1890, list all (1) buildings, (2) real estate, (3) stationery, (4) tracks, (5) iron, (6) condition of road bed, (7) bridges, (8) culverts, (9) station houses, (10) telegraphic equipment at all offices, (11) road handcars, (12) tools and materials on line of road and at all maintenance departments, (13) locomotive engines, (14) all types of freight and passenger cars, (15) wood and ties, (16) ballast and (17) furniture. The grand total of the Western & Atlantic in 1890 was placed at $6,364,932.62. A grand total for the 1870 inventory was never established.

Dates

  • Created: 1871-1890

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted

Extent

0 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement Note

The volumes have been arranged chronologically by date.

Title
Public Service Commission - Transportation - Western and Atlantic Railroad Reports
Author
Georgia Archives
Description rules
Local
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Georgia Archives Repository

Contact:
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States