West Point Route (Railroad): Map, History, Logo
Last revised: October 16, 2026
By: Adam Burns
The West Point Route was the Atlanta & West Point Rail Road and the Western Railway of Alabama, run as one line from Atlanta through West Point, Georgia, to Montgomery and Selma. Reporting marks AWP and WA. Headquarters were in Atlanta. The two companies kept their own charters. From the gauge change of 1886 they were operated together, and the name on the trains was the West Point Route.
The Georgia Railroad & Banking Company held a large block of the stock. Its own railroad, from Augusta to Atlanta, was a different company, with its own mark, GA. The diesels below are the Atlanta & West Point list and the Western of Alabama list. Pacific No. 290 is the steam locomotive that survives.
Atlanta & West Point FP7 No. 554 leaves Atlanta Terminal Station in 1957 with the Southern Railway’s Crescent Limited, for Montgomery and New Orleans. Howard Robins photo.
On this page: One route, two companies · Atlanta & West Point · Western Railway of Alabama · At a glance · The Georgia Railroad · Passenger trains · Pacifics 290 and 190 · Diesels · Family Lines
One route, two companies
The Alabama end was begun first. The Montgomery Rail Road was chartered in 1834 to build from Montgomery, on the Alabama River, to West Point, on the Chattahoochee. By 1841 about 32 miles were open eastward, standard gauge, on easy ground. A new company, the Montgomery & West Point Rail Road, took up the work in 1843 and finished the line to West Point on April 28, 1851. C. J. Marsh Jr. puts that completed distance at 88 miles. A branch of about 29 miles from Opelika to Columbus, Georgia, was finished in 1854.
The Georgia end started later and on a different gauge. The Atlanta & LaGrange Rail Road, backed by the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company, built 5-foot track west from East Point, six miles south of downtown Atlanta on the Central of Georgia. It reached West Point in 1854, 87 miles from Atlanta in Marsh’s account, and the company was renamed the Atlanta & West Point in 1857. The rails met at West Point. The freight and the passengers still had to be transferred, because one line was standard gauge and the other was five feet.
Through service waited until after the Civil War. In August 1866 the Montgomery & West Point was broadened to match the Atlanta & West Point, and freight and passengers could stay on the same cars from Atlanta to Montgomery. On May 29–31, 1886, with the rest of the South, the route was narrowed to 4 feet 8½ inches. From that change the two companies were operated as one railroad. An earlier slogan was the Atlanta and New Orleans Short Line. The name that lasted is the West Point Route.
The West Point Route logo. Author’s work.
Atlanta & West Point
The Interstate Commerce Commission’s valuation gives the Georgia company’s dates. It was incorporated on December 27, 1847, as the Atlanta and La Grange Railroad Company, to build from Atlanta, or from some point on the Macon & Western, to LaGrange. The company was organized on May 24, 1849. The first section went into operation on March 3, 1851. On December 22, 1857, a Georgia act changed the name to the Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company.
Company forces built the line from East Point to West Point, and the valuation records it as 79.93 miles: East Point to Newnan, 33.00 miles, in 1851; Newnan to near Hogansville, 19.00 miles, in 1852; near Hogansville to LaGrange, 12.75 miles, in 1853; and LaGrange to West Point, 15.18 miles, in 1854. The 1857 act also authorized an extension toward Greenville or Columbus. West Point had already been reached in 1854. The extension of the railroad into Atlanta itself, East Point to Atlanta, 5.69 miles, was built under contract in 1889 and 1890.
At valuation the main line from Atlanta to West Point measured 85.596 miles. A second piece, Oakland Junction to Lakewood, measured 5.177 miles. The whole road was 90.773 miles, all of it in Georgia except 0.213 mile of sidetrack at Lanett, Alabama. Yard tracks and sidings wholly owned came to 30.866 miles, and all tracks wholly owned came to 123.602 miles. There was 1.963 miles of double track at East Point. From July 1, 1909, the Atlanta & West Point and the Central of Georgia each let the other use its track between Atlanta and East Point as a second main line, 5.69 miles, with maintenance divided on a train basis.
Georgia Railroad and West Point Route (Western Railway of Alabama/Atlanta & West Point) power is seen here at Hulsey Yard in Atlanta, Georgia. Bill McCoy photo/Warren Calloway collection.
The Atlanta Belt Line Company was incorporated on October 17, 1899, and built 5.24 miles from Oakland City to Hulsey Junction, also called Lakewood, in 1899 and 1900. The Atlanta & West Point operated it under lease from the completion date, November 30, 1900, and bought it on September 8, 1914. That belt was the freight connection, in Atlanta, between this railroad and the Georgia Railroad.
The same valuation describes the control as it then stood. The Louisville & Nashville and the Atlantic Coast Line controlled the Atlanta & West Point jointly, through 3,118 shares they owned and the voting power of 9,361 shares owned by the Georgia Rail Road & Banking Company. The carrier, with the Southern Railway and the Central of Georgia, each owned one-third of the Atlanta Terminal Company. The United States Railroad Administration operated the property from January 1, 1918.
An official 1965 map of the West Point Route. Author’s collection.
Western Railway of Alabama
The Montgomery & West Point did not stay a local line to the Chattahoochee. In 1854 the Western Rail Road of Alabama was chartered to build west from Montgomery to Selma. Marsh’s account is that this company took over the Montgomery & West Point in 1870 after opening those 44 miles. The Selma line opened in December 1870. The combined company failed, and it was sold under foreclosure in 1875. The Central of Georgia and the Georgia Railroad interests took it. The Central took the Opelika–Columbus branch into its own system. What remained was a branchless route: Atlanta, West Point, Montgomery, Selma.
The operating company on that Alabama mileage is the Western Railway of Alabama. In 1881 William M. Wadley, president of the Central of Georgia, leased the Georgia Railroad. With that lease he took the banking company’s interest in the Western of Alabama and the Atlanta & West Point, and he assigned the lease jointly to the Central of Georgia and the Louisville & Nashville. The Atlantic Coast Line bought control of the Louisville & Nashville in November 1902 and left the L&N to run its own railroad. From July 1, 1911, the Atlanta & West Point used the Western of Alabama’s terminal tracks at West Point and paid half the cost of the repair shops at Montgomery. Those shops maintained the locomotives and cars of both companies.
Western Railway of Alabama GP7 No. 523 in freight service at Opelika, Alabama, in February 1968. GP9 No. 531 is leading train 37, the Crescent. Rick Burn photo.
At a glance
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Route | Atlanta & West Point and Western Railway of Alabama, operated together from the gauge change of 1886 |
| Marks | AWP and WA |
| Headquarters | Atlanta |
| Where they met | West Point, Georgia, on the Chattahoochee |
| Atlanta & West Point | Chartered December 27, 1847. Atlanta to West Point, 85.596 miles at valuation. The whole road, 90.773 miles |
| Western of Alabama | Montgomery to West Point, 88 miles. Montgomery to Selma, 44 miles, opened December 1870 |
| Gauge | 5 feet on the Georgia line, standard gauge on the Alabama line, then 4 feet 8½ inches from May 29–31, 1886 |
| Passenger | Crescent and Piedmont Limited. The Crescent left this route on January 7, 1970 |
| Steam | Pacifics 290 and 190, Lima, March 1926. No. 290 is preserved. No. 190 was scrapped |
| Diesels | 26 locomotives on the AWP list. 28 on the WA list. FP7 502 and 1005 are one locomotive, counted on both |
| Line today | CSX Transportation. The two companies remained separate corporations after the Family Lines name ended |
The Georgia Railroad
By the 1920s the Atlanta & West Point, the Western Railway of Alabama, and the Georgia Railroad appeared in one Official Guide entry, and they shared a president and other officers. On the railroad they were different properties. The Georgia Railroad was a freight road between Augusta and Atlanta, with a lighter passenger service. The West Point Route carried the Southern’s New York–New Orleans trains. In Atlanta the Atlanta & West Point used Terminal Station, with the Southern, the Seaboard Air Line, and the Central of Georgia. The Georgia Railroad used Union Station, with the Louisville & Nashville. Train 4, in the April 1963 photograph below, was at Terminal Station. Employees at Montgomery maintained West Point Route locomotives. Georgia Railroad locomotives were maintained at Augusta.
The Seaboard Coast Line acquired the Georgia Railroad properties from the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company on November 4, 1982. That sale, and the mixed trains that ended in 1983, are on the Family Lines page. Below are that railroad’s logo, a 1969 map drawn with these two roads, and photographs of its trains, including Atlanta & West Point locomotives borrowed for them.
A 1969 map drawn to show the Atlanta & West Point, the Western Railway of Alabama, and the Georgia Railroad on one sheet. Author’s work.
Atlanta & West Point FP7 No. 554 on the Georgia Railroad’s eastbound train 2, Atlanta to Augusta, at Camak, Georgia, in October 1967. Roger Puta photo.
Atlanta & West Point GP7 No. 571 leads a Georgia Railroad mixed train, with one combine, near Athens, Georgia, on November 24, 1967. Roger Puta photo.
Passenger trains
The West Point Route forwarded the Southern’s trains between Atlanta and the Louisville & Nashville at Montgomery. West of Montgomery the L&N continued them to Mobile and New Orleans. Marsh counts six long-distance through trains on the route, and, on the eve of the Second World War, eight daily passenger runs. The heavyweight Piedmont Limited carried through sleepers between New York, Washington, and New Orleans, through coaches south of Washington, and a heavy mail and express business. The flagship was the Crescent, trains 37 and 38, all-Pullman on the Southern between New York, Washington, and Atlanta. South of Atlanta the West Point Route added coaches for New Orleans.
The Central of Georgia also used the Atlanta & West Point for 39 miles, Atlanta to Newnan, and then left it for that railroad’s own line toward Columbus. Station stops on the through trains, southwest from Atlanta Terminal Station, included Newnan, LaGrange, and West Point, then Opelika, Auburn, Chehaw, and Montgomery.
Beginning in 1949 the Crescent was re-equipped with stainless-steel cars from Budd and Pullman-Standard. The West Point Route’s share of the pool was eight cars: a baggage car, a diner, coaches, sleepers, and a Pullman lounge-observation. Blue-and-silver FP7s replaced the Pacifics on the point. The Crescent was the last passenger train left on the route. It came off on January 7, 1970, and was rerouted by way of Birmingham. Atlanta & West Point coach 120 stayed in service on the Georgia Railroad’s last mixed trains, into the early 1980s.
Pacifics 290 and 190
The steam lists for both companies are in Richard E. Prince’s Steam Locomotives and History: Georgia Railroad and West Point Route (1962) and in Robert H. Hanson’s The West Point Route (2007). Lima built two heavy Pacifics for the Crescent in March 1926, works numbers 7008 and 7009. They followed the USRA heavy Pacific, in the same family as the Southern Ps-4, and they were delivered on 73-inch drivers. Thicker tires brought the drivers to 74 inches, which is the class designation P-74. One engine took the northbound Crescent while the other took the southbound.
| Railroad | Number | Type | Builder | Works | Built | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta & West Point | 290 | 4-6-2 | Lima | 7008 | March 1926 | Class P-74. Preserved |
| Western Railway of Alabama | 190 | 4-6-2 | Lima | 7009 | March 1926 | Class P-74. Scrapped |
Both left revenue service in 1954. No. 190 was scrapped. No. 290 was preserved. The Atlanta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society owns it. It returned to steam in 1989 for the New Georgia Railroad, ran until 1992, and also appeared in the film Fried Green Tomatoes. It is stored at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia, awaiting cosmetic restoration. Ten-Wheelers and Mountains also handled passenger trains on the route. Western of Alabama 4-8-2 No. 186 was on the Crescent at Montgomery on November 12, 1941.
Diesels
The first diesel was Western Railway of Alabama F3A No. 501, Electro-Motive serial 7604, delivered in September 1948. FP7s in blue and silver followed for the Crescent. The two lists below are every locomotive that carried an Atlanta & West Point number or a Western of Alabama number. A rebuild keeps the row of the locomotive it was rebuilt from. GP16 4976 is GP7 576. GP16 4977 is GP7 524. FP7 serial 8018 is Western of Alabama 502 and, later, Atlanta & West Point 1005, so that one locomotive is on both lists.
Atlanta & West Point
| Model | Numbers | Qty | Serial | Order | Built | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP7 | 551–552 | 2 | 8020–8021 | August 1949 | 551 to Georgia Railroad 1005 | |
| FP7 | 553–554 | 2 | 13569–13570 | February 1951 | ||
| GP7 | 571 | 1 | 8868 | February 1950 | To Georgia Railroad 1019 | |
| GP7 | 572 | 1 | 11876 | August 1950 | To Georgia Railroad 1020 | |
| GP7 | 573–574 | 2 | 13026–13027 | January 1951 | 574 wrecked | |
| GP7 | 575 | 1 | 17557 | October 1952 | ||
| GP7 | 576 | 1 | 12090 | November 1950 | Ex-Seaboard Air Line 1732, later Seaboard Coast Line 912. Rebuilt as GP16 4976 | |
| DS-4-4-1000 | 675 | 1 | 74205 | June 1949 | Ex-Georgia Railroad 921 | |
| DS-4-4-1000 | 676–677 | 2 | 74596–74597 | April 1949 | 677 later went to the Jacksonville Port Authority | |
| S-12 | 678 | 1 | 75280 | July 1951 | ||
| GP40 | 726 | 1 | 33099 | May 1967 | To Seaboard System 6646 | |
| GP40 | 727 | 1 | 33882 | July 1968 | To Seaboard System 6647 | |
| GP40 | 728–729 | 2 | 34750–34751 | January 1969 | To Seaboard System 6648 and 6649 | |
| GP40 | 730–732 | 3 | 36171–36173 | May 1970 | To Seaboard System 6650–6652 | |
| GP40-2 | 733 | 1 | 73681-1 | 73681 | November 1974 | To Seaboard System 6645 |
| FP7 | 1005 | 1 | 8018 | November 1949 | Ex-Western Railway of Alabama 502 | |
| GP16 | 4978 | 1 | 14964 | October 1951 | Built as Atlantic Coast Line 246, later Seaboard Coast Line 777 | |
| GP38-2 | 6007–6008 | 2 | April 1979 | Family Lines paint |
The Atlanta & West Point rows total 26 locomotives.
Western Railway of Alabama
| Model | Numbers | Qty | Serial | Order | Built | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F3A | 501 | 1 | 7604 | September 1948 | ||
| FP7 | 502–503 | 2 | 8018–8019 | November 1949 | 502 to Atlanta & West Point 1005 | |
| GP7 | 520 | 1 | 12092 | November 1950 | Ex-Seaboard Air Line 1734, later Seaboard Coast Line 914 | |
| GP7 | 521 | 1 | 8869 | February 1950 | To Seaboard System 738 | |
| GP7 | 522–523 | 2 | 9082–9083 | August 1950 | 523 wrecked | |
| GP7 | 524 | 1 | 15625 | October 1952 | Rebuilt as GP16 4977 | |
| GP7 | 525–526 | 2 | 18282–18283 | April 1953 | ||
| GP9 | 530–531 | 2 | 18724–18725 | May 1954 | 531 to Seaboard System 1004 | |
| VO-1000 | 621–623 | 3 | 71965–71967 | October 1944 | Delivered as 1–3 | |
| VO-1000 | 624 | 1 | 70316 | December 1944 | Delivered as 4 | |
| DS-4-4-1000 | 630 | 1 | 74233 | October 1948 | To Seaboard Coast Line 91 | |
| GP40 | 701 | 1 | 33098 | May 1967 | To Seaboard System 6790 | |
| GP40 | 702 | 1 | 33881 | July 1968 | To Seaboard System 6791 | |
| GP40 | 703–704 | 2 | 34748–34749 | February 1969 | To Seaboard System 6792 and 6793 | |
| GP40 | 705 | 1 | 36174 | May 1970 | To Seaboard System 6794 | |
| GP40 | 706–707 | 2 | 36654–36655 | May 1970 | To Seaboard System 6795 and 6796 | |
| GP40-2 | 708 | 1 | 73681-2 | 73681 | November 1974 | To Seaboard System 6642 |
| GP16 | 4979 | 1 | 13926 | February 1951 | Built as Atlantic Coast Line 141, later Seaboard Coast Line 729 | |
| GP38-2 | 6045 | 1 | 1979 | Ex-Clinchfield. Family Lines paint. Lettered WA after it was built | ||
| GP38-2 | 6046 | 1 | August 1979 | Ex-Seaboard Coast Line. Family Lines paint. Lettered WA after it was built |
The Western Railway of Alabama rows total 28 locomotives.
Family Lines
From 1972 through 1982 the Seaboard Coast Line Industries marketed these two railroads, with the Seaboard Coast Line, the Louisville & Nashville, the Clinchfield, and the Georgia Railroad, under the name Family Lines. Each company kept its mark. The Atlanta & West Point GP38-2s 6007 and 6008 were delivered in that paint in April 1979. On November 1, 1980, Seaboard Coast Line Industries and Chessie System, Inc., became CSX Corporation. On December 29, 1982, the Seaboard Coast Line and the Louisville & Nashville merged into the Seaboard System. The Atlanta & West Point and the Western Railway of Alabama remained separate corporations after the marketing name ended. The railroad they operated is now part of CSX, still the direct line from Atlanta to Montgomery.
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Sources
- Interstate Commerce Commission, Valuation Reports, Volume 29, Atlanta and West Point Rail Road. Charter, construction mileage, the belt line, joint control, the Atlanta Terminal Company, and the Montgomery shops
- C. J. Marsh Jr., “West Point Route history remembered,” Classic Trains, October 6, 2024. The two companies, the gauges, the 1886 change, Selma, the Columbus branch, the passenger trains, and January 7, 1970
- Robert H. Hanson, The West Point Route: The Atlanta & West Point Rail Road and The Western Railway of Alabama (TLC Publishing, 2007)
- Richard E. Prince, Steam Locomotives and History: Georgia Railroad and West Point Route (1962). Steam roster
- steamlocomotive.com, West Point Route 4-6-2s. Lima works 7008 and 7009, March 1926, class P-74, drivers 73 inches as delivered and 74 inches afterward
- Old Alabama Rails, historical sketch of the Western Railway of Alabama. July 9, 1842, February 13, 1843, April 28, 1851, and the Selma line in December 1870
- railga.com, Western Railway of Alabama. William M. Wadley’s 1881 lease, assigned jointly to the Central of Georgia and the Louisville & Nashville
- Atlanta & West Point and Western Railway of Alabama diesel rosters, thedieselshop.us, John Komanesky, from Extra 2200 South. The two diesel lists
- Trains, “Georgia Railroad: A good and unique ‘Family’ member,” for the Seaboard Coast Line’s acquisition of the Georgia Railroad properties on November 4, 1982. The Family Lines page on this site is the account of that sale and of the mixed trains
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The Surface Transportation Board environmental office issued a draft assessment on November 6, 2026, for about 0.96 miles of Norfolk Southern track in London, Ohio. Comments are due November 20. -
Metrolink Lines Will Not Run on Three Routes November 7
Nov 07, 26 10:53 AM
Metrolink will not run the Ventura County, Orange County, or Inland Empire-Orange County lines on November 7 and 8, 2026. The advisory says no substitute transportation will be provided.
