Nickajack Railroad The extreme northwest corner of Georgia was the location of the little Nickajack Railroad, a 7-mile coal carrier that ran south from the NC& St. L at Shellmound, Tennessee, to Cole City, Georgia, a late nineteenth-century coal mining community. A little over five miles of the line was within Georgia, all of it along the banks of Nickajack Creek. The railroad was built in the 1890s and abandoned around 1900. 1895 map (50K)   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home