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]
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