Airline Belle
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| type = Inter-city rail
| status = Discontinued
| locale = Georgia
| first = 1879
| last = 1931
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| formeroperator = Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway (1879-1894)
Southern Railway (1894-1931)
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| start = Atlanta, Georgia
| stops = 39
| end = Toccoa, Georgia
| distance = {{cvt|93|mi}}
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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|date=May 2021}} Its route was {{convert|93|mi|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
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101225013110/http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/Images/Users/education/lesson_plans/atlantahistory/l2a.pdf "The Airline Belle Makes Final Run in North Georgia", Atlanta Journal, July 26, 1931]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=ByTgAtilbi4C&dq=%22Airline+Belle%22+train&pg=PA885 Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s, by Franklin M. Garrett.]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=lw2fF0k0i5gC&dq=%22Airline+Belle%22+train&pg=PA58 Living Atlanta: An Oral History of the City, 1914-1948, by Clifford M. Kuhn.]
- [http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/archives/72211/ Vardeman, Johnny. "Riders loved to commute on Airline Belle rail line". Gainesville Times, September 2, 2012.]{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
{{Named Trains of the Southern Railway}}
Category:Named passenger trains of the United States
Category:Passenger trains of the Southern Railway (U.S.)
Category:Passenger rail transportation in Georgia (U.S. state)