Passenger Equipment

During the first decade of the independent Columbus & Greenville, passenger equipment consisted of turn-of-the-century wooden rolling stock purchased from former parent Southern Railway Company in Mississippi. In the mid 1930s, the C&G purchased a batch of former Reading Railroad coaches and baggage-postal cars to improve the condition of its scheduled daily train, the Deltan. Older cars were sometimes used to carry seasonal agricultural workers to and from the fields during harvest seasons. After the cessation of all C&G passenger service in 1948, many of the coaches and motorcar trailers were converted into storage units and boarding cars for the company's Roadway Department. Much of the beleaguered equipment hovered around the Columbus shops well into the 1970s.