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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 ...
Caboose 31580, built by the company's own Macon, GA shops in 1937, currently resides at the New Hope Railroad in New Hope, PA. Caboose X-92. The wood caboose was built in 1916 as a ventilated boxcar, and the Central of Georgia converted the car into a caboose in 1942. On display at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, GA.
A marker for where the chase ended is at Milepost 116.3, north of Ringgold, Georgia, which is not far from the recently restored depot at Milepost 114.5. A monument dedicated to Andrew's Raiders is located at the Chattanooga National Cemetery ; it has the General on top of the monument and a brief history of the great locomotive chase.
However, none of those structures remain today. By the mid-1840s the railway had expanded to 190 miles (310 km) of track , and the CG began construction of new shops in 1851. [ 6 ] The first completed building was the carpenters' shop in 1853, followed by the original roundhouse , machine shop , tender frame shop, blacksmith shop and several ...
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Savannah station is an Amtrak train station in Savannah, Georgia. It serves the Floridian , Palmetto , and Silver Meteor ; it is the southern terminus of the Palmetto . The station has one island platform and one side platform which together serve two main tracks and one siding of the Savannah Subdivision .
State Route 21 (SR 21) is an 84.4-mile-long (135.8 km) state highway that travels southeast-to-northwest through portions of Chatham, Effingham, Screven, and Jenkins counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia.
State Route 17 (SR 17) is a 300-mile-long (480 km) state highway that travels northwest–southeast in the east-central and northeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia.