# West Point Route

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{{Short description|Railroad in the Southern United States}}
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The '''West Point Route''' was actually a nickname used in the early 20th century for the joint operations of the [Atlanta and West Point Railroad](/source/Atlanta_and_West_Point_Railroad) and the [Western Railway of Alabama](/source/Western_Railway_of_Alabama).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oldalabamarails.org/history2.html |title=Western Railway of Alabama (Old Alabama Rails) |access-date=2009-05-28 |archive-date=2009-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212195747/http://oldalabamarails.org/history2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.railga.com/wra.html |title=Georgia Railroad History Index |access-date=2009-05-28 |archive-date=2010-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816122210/http://www.railga.com/wra.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The name refers to the city of [West Point, Georgia](/source/West_Point%2C_Georgia), where the two railroads met.

Until the 1960s, the route carried [Southern Railway](/source/Southern_Railway_(U.S.)) passenger trains, such as the ''[Crescent](/source/Crescent_(train))'' and the ''[Piedmont Limited](/source/Piedmont_Limited)'' on New York to New Orleans service.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The West Point Route |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=97 |issue=7 |date=December 1964}}</ref> By the latter 1960s, the ''Crescent'' was the only remaining passenger train. In 1970, the ''Crescent'' was rerouted on its present-day more northwestern route, through Birmingham.

Major station stops, southwest from Atlanta's [Terminal Station](/source/Terminal_Station_(Atlanta)) were in Georgia: Newman, LaGrange, West Point, in Alabama: Opelika, Auburn, Chehaw and Montgomery. Coach-only trains made additional station stops.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The West Point Route |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=88 |issue=4 |date=September 1955}}</ref> Passenger trains continued west beyond Montgomery to Mobile and New Orleans on the [Louisville and Nashville Railroad](/source/Louisville_and_Nashville_Railroad).<ref>Southern Railway timetable, 1952, Tables A, B, C https://streamlinermemories.info/South/SOU52TT.pdf</ref>

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