The Atlantic Coast Line merged the Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast on January 1st, 1946, but operations were not fully changed on this November 6th date. The AB&C engines have been renumbered into the 7000 series (e.g. #7226 above was AB&C 226) but the train numbers remained unchanged from the AB&C era. Trains would soon be renumbered with the ACL’s first employee timetable covering the former AB&C territory on December 12.

Trains 53 and 56 were the time freights between Atlanta and Waycross; these would become ACL 211 & 212. A new pair of Atlanta to Waycross trains 209 and 214 would also be added. Trains 153 and 156 connected Brunswick with the time freights at Nicholls; these would become trains 217 and 218. Mixed trains 48 and 49 worked the Thomasville branch; these would become ACL trains 402 and 403.

All of the above information came from Larry Goolsby’s excellent book Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast.

A 1942 AB&C employee timetable can be found on rrpictureachives.net.