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The building was used as offices and passenger terminal for the AB&A in Atlanta is located at the corner of Fairlie and Walton Streets in downtown Atlanta. It is now used as offices for Central Atlanta Progress. The upper facade of the building retains the "Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic
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The Mangum Street embankment which ran north–south along Mangum Street (parallel to today's Northside Drive, but two blocks to the east), upon which trains reached the Atlanta terminus west of
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meet the revenue specifications for Class I status, but are not technically Class I railroads due to being passenger-only railroads with no freight component.
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was formed in 1914 as a reorganization of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad, which had been created in 1905 to purchase the
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The railroad went into receivership in 1921 and was acquired by the
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This article about a Class I railroad in the United States is a
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Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad Photograph Collection
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History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
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Downtown Atlanta
Atlantic and Birmingham Railway
Birmingham, Alabama
Montezuma, Georgia
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad
Downtown Atlanta
Georgia Dome
Railways portal
"Bonnyman, Alexander, 1868-1953 | ArchivesSpace Public Interface"
"Before the Georgia Dome and World Congress Center", Return to Atlanta (blog)
Georgia's Railroads, History, and Heritage
Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. I. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing, 1921, pp. 70-71.
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad Photograph Collection
Atlanta History Center
Alexander Bonnyman Papers
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