The Bainbridge Northeastern Railway was a railway company in southern
Georgia that ran 18 miles (29 km) between
Swindell Landing and
Mount Royal,
USA, starting in 1908.[1] It lasted only two years before it was abandoned.
History
The railroad company was chartered on September 7, 1907, and incorporated on September 14, 1907, in Atlanta with a capital stock of $200,000 to build a 70-mile long (110 km) line from
Bainbridge, Georgia, across the
Florida panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico.[2][3][4][5] One of the main incorporators, E. Swindell, also owned a logging railroad called the
Georgia Eastern Railway, that was intended to be purchased by Bainbridge Northeastern.[1]
The Bainbridge Northeastern entered receivership in May 1908 because the company was, as its receiver put it, "... so intimately connected with the affairs of E. Swindell & Co." although the ownership of the railroad's infrastructure was still unclear.[6] The appointed receiver was J.M. Wilkinson, who was third vice president of the
Georgia and Florida Railway.[7]
The line was built out to about 15 miles (24 km) by 1910.[8]
^"Bainbridge Northeastern". Manufacturer's Record. Vol. LII, no. 18. Baltimore, MD: Manufacturers' Record Publishing Co. May 14, 1908. p. 50 – via Google Books.