Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway

Mangum Street embankment (from center top to center bottom of image) of the AB&A railroad west of Downtown Atlanta. Factory with smokestacks at top is at NW corner Northside Drive (then Davis) and Thurmond - "Blue" parking lot as of 2012.

The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway was formed in 1914 as a reorganization of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad, which had been created in 1905 to purchase the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway and extend its track into Birmingham, Alabama, from an end point at Montezuma, Georgia. Financial troubles forced the railroad to reorganize under the name Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad in 1926.

The Mangum Street embankment which ran north-south along Mangum Street (parallel to today's Northside Drive, but two blocks to the east), upon which trains reached the Atlanta terminus west of Downtown Atlanta, was built in 1905 and razed for construction of the Georgia Dome.

The building originally used as offices and passenger terminal for the AB&A in Atlanta is located at the corner of Fairlie and Walton Streets in downtown Atlanta. It is presently used as offices for the Fulton County Department of Families and Children's Services. The upper facade of the building retains the "Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad" stonework on two sides.