The map in the Georgia Railroad story shows no rail line beteween these two cities.
Why?
Open Railway Map shows at least two lines between Atlanta & Macon. The map to which you are referring may be an advertising map so not every connecting line is going to be shown.
Thanks. Probably a map produced by the Georgia Railroad itself and not by a Kalmbach mapper.
The Georgia did not have a mainline from Atlanta to Macon. Macon was on a GA branchline, and could be accessed only via a junction at Camak, on the Atlanta-Augusta mainline (which was the only GA mainline). Camak (NE of Milledgeville) is located about 3/4 of the way from Atlanta to Augusta. The Macon Branch, as it was called, goes through Milledgeville on the way to Macon. If you look at a Georgia state map, you’ll see it’s a very round-about way to go from Atlanta to Macon. You’d be going very far east, then turning right about 135 degrees and heading a long distance southwest.
In the CSX days the former Georgia Railroad line from Camak now ends at Milledgeville with a connection to the NS for the power plant at Plant Harllee. When I worked the territory Plant Harllee would get two or three coal trains a week - that business no longer exists according to my sources.
Many people confuse the Central of Georgia and the Georgia Railroad - they are not the same company’s.
Why is the CofG Atlanta - Macon connection missing from the GRR nap?
Dumb to me!
Company maps rarely identified the competition.
Nor did they show where they had trackage rights–and they usually showed little curvature (the IC did give a better indication of how its tracks wandered about).
Was drawn by a Kalmbach artist for the specific story. It shows the Georgia Railroad and all of the other railroads affiliated by ownership with the Georgia Railroad.