The Macon Construction Company got charters in 1888 to build three separate railroads, one of which was to be the Macon and Atlantic Railway (M&A). The M&A, which was to run from Macon to Savannah, actually laid down twelve miles of rails heading eastward from the town of Bruton in Laurens County before the money ran out and it went into receivership in 1894. Not to be denied, investors reorganized the M&A into the Atlantic Short Line Railway.
Bulloch History with Roger Allen - Central of Ga. opens local line


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