Ocilla, Pinebloom & Valdosta Railway The OP&V, originally called the Fitzgerald, Pinebloom & Valdosta, was a logging road and occasional common carrier owned by the Gray Lumber Company. The 52-mile Lax-Pinebloom-Nashville line was completed in 1901-03. In 1906, the OP&V sold the section south of Pinebloom to the Douglas, Augusta, and Gulf Railway (which was controlled by the Georgia and Florida). It continued to operate the tracks north of Pinebloom. (Pinebloom was a flag station on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad a mile east of Willacoochee with a 1896 population of about 200. The Gray Brothers saw mill was its largest enterprise.) The line was renamed the Ocilla, Pinebloom, and Valdosta Railroad in 1910. In 1915 the Henderson Lumber Company gained control. The 1918 Report of the Georgia Railroad Commission listed the OP&V as a 27-mile line between Gladys, a point on the Ocilla Southern Railroad, and Shaw’s Still, which was about nine miles southeast of Willacoochee. Two years later the Commission indicated that the OP&V had been dismantled and listed its successor road, the Willacoochee and DuPont, as a 9.5-mile line between Willacoochee and Shaws Still. 1895 map (50K) 1898 map (56K) 1902 map (56K) 1904 map (32K) 1918 timetable (39K)   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home