Sale City Depot The depot at Sale City was a fixture alongside the long-gone Flint River & Northeastern Railroad, a 23-mile short line link between Pelham and the Georgia Northern Railway. The photos above were shot in 2011. Below is one made about thirty years earlier. Sale City was named for T.D. Sale, an entrepreneur with various business interests in the area. He was president of the FR&NE in 1904 and later a major timber property owner and sawmill operator in western Florida. Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home