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Lakeland Railway of Georgia; info

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Lakeland Railway of Georgia; info
Posted by caboose63 on Sunday, July 23, 2017 3:43 PM

Does anyone have information on the long defunct Georgia short line Lakeland Railway of Lakeland Georgia? Such as what businesses were served by the line.

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, July 23, 2017 4:14 PM

According to Wikipedia, the railroad wasabandonedin 1957.

http://railga.com/lakeland.html

 

 

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Posted by overall on Monday, July 24, 2017 11:54 AM

I lived in Valdosta up until 1994. I wasn't able to find out much. I do know that it was called the "Lakeland Spur" and it branched off of the ACL (now CSX) at Naylor Ga. I think they had one or two switch engines. I think it was finally abandoned sometime in the seventies. It was gone completely without a trace when I got there in 1982.

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