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The trail at the 2.4-mile mark, near Heritage Park in Mableton, Georgia. The Silver Comet Trail is named for the Silver Comet passenger train that traversed the same route from 1947 to 1969. [1] It begins in Smyrna, Georgia, runs west through Cobb, Paulding and Polk counties, and continues as Alabama's Chief Ladiga Trail at the state line.
The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in northern Georgia. Based in Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States it follows the former Marietta and North Georgia Railroad line along the Toccoa River north to McCaysville, Georgia, and its Twin city of Copperhill, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of the Georgia Northeastern Railroad, which also ...
Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah, Georgia - Rail Georgia.com HawkinsRails' Georgia State Railroad Museum scrapbook Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. GA-1, " Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, Bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary & Hull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA ", 2 ...
Withdrawn 1986 due to boiler and mechanical issues, being the last engine to operate under steam at the park. Donated to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, GA in 2007, and moved to the museum the following year, where it is currently on display. [3] 60 Texas II: 4-4-0: Baldwin Locomotive Works: May 1922 San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway
The Southeastern Railway Museum (initialized SRM, AAR code SMRX) is a railroad museum located in Duluth, Georgia, in suburban Atlanta. The museum was founded in 1970 by the Atlanta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. There are over 90 pieces of rolling stock exhibited on the 30-acre (12 ha) site.
Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed is a former passenger depot and trainshed constructed in 1860 by the Central of Georgia Railway (CofG) before the outbreak of the American Civil War. This pair of buildings was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] a listing that was expanded in 1978 to the old Central of Georgia ...
The Roosevelt Railroad, owned by the Roosevelt Railroad Museum Inc., runs southward for approximately seven miles from Towaliga in the north end of Spalding County, Georgia, to Experiment, Georgia. The railroad, formerly part of the Southern Railway's "M" line, is being upgraded for scenic rail tours. A museum, located near the site of the old ...
Merging with the Georgia and North Carolina Railroad necessitated another slight name change, to the Marietta and North Georgia Railway rather than the previous Railroad. It was converted from three-foot (775mm) narrow gauge to standard gauge as far north as Blue Ridge, Georgia in 1890, and from there to Murphy in 1897.