Camak, GA: Coaling Tower and Depot

Tower: (Satellite)    The 1928 RR Atlas labels this line "GA.". The line goes between Atlanta and Augusta. For once, a railroad used a standardized design because this looks like the one in Social Circle, GA. L&N must have used the same manufacturer because their coal tower in Chaska, TN, looks the same.

Depot: (Satellite)

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Marty Bernard posted

More of the Georgia RR Mixed

Found another of Roger Puta's slides of a Georgia RR mixed train, this time at Camak, Ga. in September 1964 with freight cars. Looks like the combine has marker lights at opposite corners!
Howard Pincus An old car: canvas roof, truss rod underframe, probably steel sheathing over the original wood sides, and wide letterboard covering arched windows. A gem!
Christopher Clarke The coach roof is wooden covered with canvas. It was built before 1910. Steel roofs started in 1910 but when railways ordered railway passenger cars built after 1910 until about 1935, they chose steel roofs or wooden roofs with canvas covered.

Marty shared
Dennis DeBruler That is the first photo I have seen of that coaling tower. And it is old enough to show the metal stairway. That tower still stands:
https://www.google.com/.../@33.4514437,-82.../data=!3m1!1e3

Dave Kuntz Drone Photos posted four photos with the comment: "This century-old coaling tower in Camak GA is one of the few remaining towers in the US that still straddle an active track.  It seems like a couple more are taken down every year, like the one that was in Social Circle an hour west of here.  But for now, it stands as concrete testament to a long-gone steam era."

Tim Shanahan shared

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[It still has its metal stairs. Generally, the metal gets scrapped.]

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This depot doesn't have the typical depot architecture that I'm used to in the Midwest. But you can tell that the freight handling part was on the right (west) side.

Street View, Jun 2014

Street View, Mar 2022