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:

    Obscurest night involv’d the sky,
    Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d,
    When such a destin’d wretch as I,
    Wash’d headlong from on board,
    Of friends, of hope, of all bereft,
    His floating home for ever left.
    William Cowper (1731–1800)

    How happy is the sailor’s life,
    From coast to coast to roam;
    In every port he finds a wife,
    In every land a home.
    Isaac Bickerstaffe (c. 1735–1812)

    When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)