The Empire and Dublin Railroad was founded in 1888 in Georgia, United States. It began by using a former logging railroad owned by the Empire Lumber Company that ran about between Empire and Dublin, then rebuilding and extending it to Hawkinsville. The railroad ran into financial trouble and was reorganized as the Oconee and Western Railroad in 1892. Defunct Georgia (U.S. state) railroads Predecessors of the Central of Georgia Railway Railway companies established in 1888 Railway companies disestablished in 1892