Gainesville Midland

Company History: This company was launched in 1904 to take over the routes of the bankrupt Gainesville Jefferson & Southern, a Y shaped, narrow gauge line linking Jefferson and Monroe with Gainesville, Georgia. Two years later, the line was extended (this time with standard gauge track) to Athens. The rest of the railroad was gradually standard gauged over several years. By 1948, the branch to Monroe had been abandoned. In 1959, the GM became a subsidiary of Seaboard Air Line (followed by Seaboard Coast Line in 1967.) It was folded into Seaboard System on the first day of 1983.

Successor/Parent History: The Seaboard System Railroad, Inc. (reporting mark SBD) was a short-lived former US Class I railroad that was created after the consolidation of the Family Lines System railroads (notably the Louisville & Nashville, Seaboard Coast Line, and Clinchfield) on December 29, 1982. Under the Family Lines era, the railroads shared common ownership but used different names when conducting business. On July 1, 1986, the Seaboard System renamed itself as the CSX Transportation and absorbed the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway on August 31, 1987 which ended the CSX Corporation's shared ownership of the Seaboard System and Chessie System railroads.

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