Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Organized in December, 1886 to build a rail line from Monroe, N.C., near Charlotte, to Atlanta, the GC&N began construction in North Carolina in 1887. The line was completed to a connection with the Georgia Railroad at Inman Park on the east side of Atlanta in 1892. Because an injunction stopped the new line from entering the city of Atlanta from the east, the GC&N was forced to construct the Seaboard Air Line Belt Railroad in 1892. This eight-mile line branched off the GC&N at Belt Jct. (near Emory University) and ran west to a connection with the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway at Howells. By use of trackage rights over the NC&StL, GC&N trains were able to enter Atlanta despite the injunction. In 1898 the railroad added a branch line in Gwinnett County, the Loganville and Lawrenceville Railroad. In 1889, well before completion, the line had been leased to the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad and the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad companies which were operating, along with other related railroads, under the name Seaboard Air Line. The GC&N was merged into the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1901. 1895 map (66K)   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home