The Empire and Dublin Railroad was founded in 1888. It began by using a former logging railroad owned by the Empire Lumber Company that ran about 11 miles between Empire, GA and Dublin, GA then rebuilding and extending it to Hawkinsville, GA. The railroad ran into financial trouble and was reorganized as the Oconee and Western Railroad in 1892.
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“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Though the railroad and the telegraph have been established on the shores of Maine, the Indian still looks out from her interior mountains over all these to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)