This 5 ft (1524 mm) gauge railroad was first chartered as the Memphis Branch Railroad and Steamboat Company of Georgia in 1839. This company built a 20 mile line between Rome Georgia and Kingston where it connected with the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
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