Marietta was initially selected as the hub for the new Western and Atlantic Railroad, and business boomed.

In 1890 the tracks reached Atlanta, Georgia, by leasing the state-owned Western and Atlantic Railroad.

One source states that cannon were produced here and rifled at the roundhouse of the Western & Atlantic Railroad.

October 11 - The St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad opens.

The potential passenger route would operate on tracks operated by the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad.

In 1851 the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad entered Berlin, connecting it to other markets.

It provided only freight service through a connection with the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad and was eventually abandoned in 1926.

The members were the employees of the Western Railroad and the Atlantic Railroad.

The settlement began when the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad was built through here in 1881.

He began working for the Western & Atlantic Railroad on September 8, 1855, at the age of 19.