Georgia Cannonball

The Georgia Cannonball was the given name of an intercity passenger train operated by the Georgia Railroad. It was a local service which ran on the railroad's main line between Atlanta, Georgia and Augusta, Georgia. The railroad was completed between the two cities in 1845. One round trip was dropped in 1968, leaving a single daily round trip on the route. The service became a mixed train on July1, 1969. Georgia Railroad declined to join Amtrak in 1971, leaving the service as one of the few intercity rail routes in America which was not operated by the new quasi-government agency. The final passenger run occurred on May6, 1983; by then a normal trip between endpoints could take up to twelve hours.