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| Eddie Stephens posted 1965 aerial from Atlanta Time Machine. Spring St. (now Ted Turner Dr.) and Mitchell St. second intersection up from lower right. Just to the left of center is the Atlanta Gas Light reservoir. The bladder is UP. Far left, center is Charles M. Mayson Plant, City of Atlanta incinerator. The garbage trucks went down Mangum St. to the incinerator. They burned twice a day. In this period the garbage collectors went in your backyard to pickup the garbage from, usually, galvanized steel cans. Lower right are the two Southern Railway buildings. Upper left of them is Terminal Station with the canopies over the passenger loading platforms. [The gasometer was owned by Atlanta Gas Light. The headhouse is to the right of the platforms and faces what is now Ted Turner Drive.] Randall Hampton shared Bryan Russell: Terminal Station served Southern, Central of Georgia, Seaboard Air Line, and Atlanta and West Point. Union Station served ACL, L&N, and Georgia. I’m surprised A&WP didn’t go to Union Station as well, since all the railroads that ACL had an ownership share of went there. |
A timetable shows the railroads Southern, Central of Georgia, Seaboard Air Line and Atlanta and West Point for the Atlanta Terminal Station. [arcadia, no date on the timetable]
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Randall's share The photo also includes Union Station near the right center. 1968 Northwest Atlanta Quad @ 24,000 |
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| 1 of several photos from Emory Terminal station, c. 1930s, courtesy of Atlanta History Center. Taken from Federal Building, later named after Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| 2nd of 25 photos from ajc, Credit: Maurice Holley In May 1955, a view of the towerless, expanded Terminal Station. Expansion and renovation came in 1947 after press campaign. [Note the gasometer on the right.] |
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| Michael Stamey posted Atlanta Terminal Station (right) 1954 |
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| Michael Stamey posted Atlanta Terminal Station 1950's Tommy Thomason: It opened in 1905 and after the end of the 2nd world war, the terminal was steam cleaned, sandblasted and expanded. It think this occurred around 1946. It had beautiful adornments and detail to it: gargoyle freizes on the corners and archways outside the building and a giant statue of the first Southern Railway President. The Southern was the primary tenant, but also used by Atlanta and West Point, Central of Georgia (a Southern Railway subsidiary) and Seaboard Air Line, later called Seaboard Coast Line. Seaboard's last train through was the Richmond, Va./ Atlanta, "Silver Comet," which came off the schedule at the end of 1969. The Comet usually had E7s on the point. Read somewhere that Southern was paying $1-million per year property taxes on the site and wanted out. It's last day of operation was June 15, 1970 and it sat vacant for some time before being demolished via wrecking ball in 1972. It looked down at the heels and smelled of urine during the lapse between shutting down and then being wrecked, but Atlantans, to this day, remark on what a shame that there was no strong effort to save the depot. I think it had 12 through tracks running beneath it. The Terminal Station's demise DID spark oreservation efforts to save the large and ornate Fox Theatre, bot ling afterwards. Architect, P. Thornton Marye designed Terminal Station and the Fox Theatre. He was also responsible for the grand Birmingham Terminal Station, razed in 1969. Keith Pomroy: Tommy Thomason the Central of Georgia at this time was affiliated with the Illinois Central. It only became a Southern Ry subsidiary late in the game—1962 or 63. Also, the Atlantic Coast Line served Atlanta here. It was the senior member of the Seaboard Coast Line merger of 1967. It reached Atlanta via the lines of the old Atlanta Birmingham & Coast, which it absorbed in 1945. The AB&C was a key link in the Florida—Midwest passenger service. Michael Stamey: Keith Pomroy ACL used Union Station. Not Terminal station. Union station served the ACL post 1946 (AB&C) L&N (NC&StL) and the Georgia RR. Keith Pomroy: Tommy Thomason I stand corrected. I guess the AB&C traffic stopped using Terminal at the time of the merger with ACL. |
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| 18th of 25 photos from ajc, Credit: Ken Patterson Overview looking westward from downtown Atlanta with construction continuing on the Hunter St. (which would become MLK Jr. Drive) viaduct. The city's massive railyards take up the right side of the photo; while Terminal Station is the landmark building in center left. (Ken Patterson/AJC 1961) [This shows how the headhouse was on the side and almost perpendicular to the platforms. We can see the platform covers for the Union Station in the lower-right corner.] |
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| Lisa Land Cooper - Author and Historian posted This image shows a Seaboard Coast Line special pulling into Terminal Station November 1, 1969. The special had been chartered by the Tampa Touchdown Club so they could attend an Atlanta Falcons game. The club had been around for at least 25 years traveling to other cities to attend professional and college games since at the time Tampa did not have a professional team. They had to charter a special train since Seaboard had discontinued passenger service five months earlier. Other rail service lines through Atlanta would also discontinue passenger service once Amtrak began operating in 1971. Richard Sinrich: Very cool. Can you decipher the sign above the building on the left? Bill Pruitt: Richard Sinrich That is the old Southern Railways office complex. It says "Southern Railways". Jim Anderson shared |
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| railfanning A postcard of the 1930 Union Station in Atlanta. (Railfanning.org Digital Collection) This station replaced the 1871 Union Station. Most of the railroad moved from the 1871 station to Terminal Station when it opened in 1904. I presume that Georgia stayed here. [I got the dates for the title from this reference.] |
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