Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad The SR&D was chartered in 1848 as the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad. The line was planned as a Selma to Gadsden connection but at the end of the Civil War it reached only as far north as Blue Mountain (near Anniston). In 1868, the company’s directors decided to abandon their Gadsden plans and instead extend the line one hundred miles to Rome and Dalton where it could connect with the Western and Atlantic Railway and other well-established routes between the upper and lower southern states. The line was completed to Dalton in 1870. The extension did not, however, ensure the financial stability of the company. It entered receivership in 1874 and was sold and reorganized as the Georgia Southern Railroad. In 1881, the line was sold again, this time to the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad, which had owned much of the stock of the Georgia Southern. 1870 timetable (60K) 1877 map (340K) 1877 map 2 (63K)   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home