Fitzgerald, Ocmulgee & Red Bluff Railway



Chartered in 1901, the FO&RB built a 13.7-mile rail line the following year from Fitzgerald northeast to Garbutt’s Landing on the Ocmulgee River. A 35-mile extension of the line to Red Bluff, on the Oconee River near present-day Soperton, may have been planned, but the Ocmulgee remained the end of the line.

In 1906 the FO&RB was absorbed into the Ocilla and Valdosta Railroad, which abandoned it the following year.

1904 map (17K)

1906 map (50K)

1910 map (44K)

FO&RB Railway listing in Official Guide 1906

From Official Guide of the Railways, 1906.

 


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