 |
| 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]
 |
| 3D Satellite |
 |
| Dennis DeBruler commented on Randall's share The photo also includes Union Station near the right center. 1968 Northwest Atlanta Quad @ 24,000 |
 |
| 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. |
 |
| 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.] |
 |
| 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.] |
 |
| 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 |
 |
| 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.] |
 |
| 3D Satellite |
 |
| Street View |
No comments:
Post a Comment