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The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company also seen as "GARR",〔''Steam Locomotives and History of the Georgia Railroad and the West Point Route'', Richard E. Prince〕 was a historic railroad and banking company that operated in the U.S. state of Georgia. In 1967 it reported 833 million revenue-ton-miles of freight and 3 million passenger-miles; at the end of the year it operated of road and of track. == History == The company was chartered in 1833 in Augusta, Georgia. In 1835, the charter was amended to include banking. Originally the line was chartered to build a railroad from Augusta to Athens, with a branch to Madison. It was converted to in 1886〔 The gauge railroad opened in 1845 with J. Edgar Thomson as its Chief Engineer and Richard Peters as its first Superintendent.〔(Georgia's Railroad History and Heritage )〕 At that time the rates were as follows: * 5¢ per mile for passengers * 50¢ per for freight Several other railroads were then under construction: *The Western and Atlantic Railroad was chartered to build a line from south of the Chattahoochee River, at a point named Terminus (present-day Atlanta), to Chattanooga, Tennessee (formerly Ross Landing). *The South Carolina Railroad was building a line from Charleston to North Augusta, South Carolina (formerly Hamburg). *The Memphis and Charleston Railroad was being built from Memphis to Chattanooga. *The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) were both constructing rival lines between Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee. The Georgia Railroad decided to extend the Madison branch to Terminus (Atlanta) and thereby compete with the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia (later the Central of Georgia Railroad), which together with the Macon 7 Western Railroad, was competing for traffic through Charleston's rival port of Savannah, Georgia. By 1850, this railroad had built of track and was up to by 1860.〔''Preliminary report on the Eighth Census 1860'' by United States Census Bureau (Washington DC: 1862), page 222 ()〕 At the time, goods from the Mississippi and Ohio valleys had to go by riverboat to New Orleans and then via coastal steamships around the Florida Keys, to get to the big population centers in the Northeast. Shipping cross-country by rail to the ports of Charleston and Savannah made perfect economic sense. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Georgia Railroad and Banking Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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