Atlantic Coast Line

The Atlantic Coast Line may refer to:

  • The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, in the United States
  • The Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom

The name was also used in advertising by the Wilmington and Raleigh and the Wilmington and Manchester railroads in the United States.

Famous quotes containing the words atlantic, coast and/or line:

    The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.
    Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)

    It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There’s a line between love and fascination that’s hard to see on an evening such as this.
    Ned Washington (1901–1976)