Western and Atlantic Railroad Company Rules Booklet, 1852.

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Western and Atlantic Railroad Company Rules Booklet, 1852.

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This collection contains a printed booklet, "Rules for Conductors and Engine-Men of the Western and Atlantic Rail-Road" published in Atlanta, Georgia in 1852. The booklet has seven sections: 1) Passenger Train Schedules 2) Freight Train Schedules 3) Rules for Passenger Engine-Men 4) Rules for Passenger Conductors 5) Rules for Freight Engine-Men 6) Rules for Freight Conductors and 7) Rules for Lumber Train Conductors. The booklet was probably created as a handbook for employees of Western and Atlantic Railroad, providing them with train schedules and company rules and guidelines.

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Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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Western and Atlantic Railroad Company

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In 1836, the Georgia State Legislature approved bonds to finance the creation of a rail line to open Georgia to the trade of the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. Initially called the State Road, the line began in an area of north Georgia that would become Atlanta, and ran 137 miles to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Competed in 1851, it was the first publicly financed railroad in the United States. It was operated by the State of Georgia until 1870, when the Georgia legislature leased the railroad to Western...