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The "air-line" is three miles and nine-thirteenths shorter from
Quattlebum to Squashtown than the present traveled route by the Conger Creek railroad.... Though we know there is already a railroad in operation between Quattlebum and Squash Town, parallel with and not far from our air-line... we feel
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satisfied that the immense current of travel, now passing by Conger Creek, must be changed, in the twinkling of an eye, to the air-line road. What sane individual, starting at
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was a railroad that was relatively straight, following a shorter (and thus, presumably quicker) route instead of a longer, winding route. In their heyday, which was prior to aviation, they were often referred to simply as "air lines".
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shares actually attracted some investor curiosity because of the name's aviation-related connotations; only after noticing that
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is not straighter than the straight line to the palms": another advertisement for the
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Seaboard Air Line Belt Railroad (Atlanta, Georgia), part of the
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New York and Connecticut Air Line Railroad (never built)
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Richmond and Washington Air Line Railroad (never built)
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New York and Washington Air Line Railway (never built)
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Le Roy and Caney Valley Air Line Railway, part of the
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Birmingham and Atlanta Air-Line Railroad, part of the
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393:Niagara River and New York Air Line Railroad in
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127:Air-Line Railroad (North Carolina), part of the
278:Eufaula and St. Andrews Bay Air-line Railroad
220:Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad
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225:Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad
493:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
386:New York and Pittsburgh Air Line Railroad
377:New York and Boston Rapid Transit Company
199:New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
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618:"Stuart Knott Appointed a Receiver"
562:The Last Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh
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460:Seaboard Air Line Railroad
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366:National Air Line Railroad
361:Boston and Lowell Railroad
333:Michigan Air-Line Railroad
190:Seaboard Air Line Railroad
150:Seaboard Air Line Railroad
111:Seaboard Air Line Railroad
105:List of air line railroads
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547:The New York Daily Times,
514:Virginia Air Line Railway
341:New York Central Railroad
337:Michigan Air-Line Railway
310:Missouri Pacific Railroad
294:Georgia Air Line Railroad
180:Baraboo Air Line Railroad
115:Seaboard Air Line Railway
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559:Ross, Walter S. (1968).
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