This is the first in a series of the history of the GC&P railroad that traveled through Liberty County, which is Long County now. We plan to span the whole route through Long County and each cache will bare the name of the location of every stop the train made. Congrats To FaolansDen for their first FTF!
Georgia Coast & Piedmont Railroad
The GC&P was a 1906 consolidation of three short lines: the Collins and Reidsville Railroad, built between those two towns in 1896; the Reidsville and Southeastern Railroad, constructed from Reidsville to Ludowici in 1905-06; and the Darien and Western Railroad, built in 1904 between Ludowici and Darien. Principal offices were in Darien.
The railroad also had a 2-mile branch from Crescent to Belleville and a 3-mile branch from Hilton Junction to Foxtown. A September 1915 schedule indicates a 9-mile freight-only branch from Warsaw, on the Seaboard Air Line Railway, to Fairhope, a point to the north.
In March 1914, the line was extended 18 miles south from Darien to Brunswick, a project that included the construction of steel truss bridges over the Darien and Altamaha rivers. After the route was completed, the railroad formed a link in the new Quebec-Miami International Highway, using flatcars to haul automobiles across the rivers and marshes (photo).
In 1916 the railroad had nine locomotives, ten passenger cars, and 148 freight cars.
The GC&P entered receivership in 1915 and was sold in 1919. The Brunswick-Darien-Ludowici section was abandoned the same year while the line north of Ludowici remained in operation as the Collins and Ludowici Railroad.
You are searching for a container that is little bit bigger than a pill bottle, parking is not a problem, should be a quick P&G, the name has nothing to do with the prizes, hope everyone enjoys