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West Point Route

By Brian Schmidt | August 11, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Steam-powered heavyweight passenger train on curve

West Point Route

Atlanta & West Point and Western Railway of Alabama — together known as the West Point Route — handle the Southern Crescent between Atlanta and Montgomery. On February 28, 1948, WofA 4-8-2 No. 185 heads a 13-car train 38 east at Hogansville, Ga. David W. Salter photo

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