Augusta, Gibson and Sandersville Railroad

The Augusta, Gibson and Sandersville Railroad was a Georgia railroad company incorporated in 1884 to connect the city of Augusta with the towns of Gibson and Sandersville. Trains began running from Augusta to Gibson in 1885, and service reached Sandersville the following year, in 1886. The line was built and operated as a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway, and it kept that gauge until 1895. The company did not stay independent for long: it went bankrupt in 1893 and was reorganized as the Augusta Southern Railroad. Its short history makes it a typical example of the small regional railroad companies that were chartered, built and reorganized within a few years in the late nineteenth century.