Atlanta, Stone Mountain and Lithonia Railway

The Atlanta, Stone Mountain and Lithonia Railwaywas a rock quarry railroad that began operations in 1909, serving as a "common carrier" railroad. It primarily connected granite and gneiss quarries at Lithonia and Stone Mountain in DeKalb County, Georgia, to the Georgia Railroad. The ASM&L operated 4 miles of track from Lithonia to a quarry near Rock Chapel, Georgia. The railway had two lines on the north side of the Georgia Railroad in Lithonia, one leading to the "Big Ledge" quarry and the other to the Pine Mountain quarries, using tracks from the former Pine Mountain Granite Company. On the south side, it operated a 4-mile line to the quarries at Arabia Mountain, previously part of the Lithonia & Arabia Mountain Railroad. At Stone Mountain, the ASM&L connected the Georgia Railroad to the granite quarries on the eastern slope, utilizing tracks laid by a predecessor company shortly after the Civil War.