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The Southern Railway North Avenue Yards, now repurposed as the NorthYards business park, is located just west of the railway line northwest from downtown Atlanta, south of the Marietta Street Artery neighborhood, rich in industrial history.
The Georgia Central Railway [1] (reporting mark GC) operates about 174 miles (280 km) of former Seaboard Coast Line track from Macon, Georgia through Dublin, Georgia and Vidalia, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia. It also operates about 20 miles (32 km) of trackage between Savannah and Riceboro, Georgia, switching Interstate Paper LLC.
Its terminus in Atlanta was located at the current site of Underground Atlanta and it was the location of the railroad's historic Atlanta Zero Mile Post. [4] The Western and Atlantic was leased to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway in 1890, which was merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1957. [5]
MARTA's system is composed of heavy rail, light rail, and local bus systems. MARTA operates primarily within the boundaries of Fulton, DeKalb, and Clayton counties. Map of the MARTA rail system. MARTA's heavy rail system operates on 47.6 miles (76.6 km) of elevated, ground-level, and underground tracks.
List of time zones by country – sorted by number of current time zones in the world; List of UTC offsets – current UTC offsets; List of time zone abbreviations – abbreviations; List of tz database time zones – zones used by many computer systems as defined by IANA; List of military time zones; Country-specific: List of time zones by U.S ...
Time zones were therefore a compromise, relaxing the complex geographic dependence while still allowing local time to be approximate with mean solar time. Railroad managers tried to address the problem by establishing 100 railroad time zones, but this was only a partial solution to the problem.
UTC−08:00 – Pacific Time zone: the Pacific coast states, the Idaho Panhandle and most of Nevada and Oregon UTC−07:00 – Mountain Time zone: most of Idaho, part of Oregon, and the Mountain states plus western parts of some adjacent states UTC−06:00 – Central Time zone: a large area spanning from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes
Georgia and Florida Railway: Atlantic Short Line Railway: CG: 1892 1896 Bruton and Pineora Railway: Atlantic, Valdosta and Western Railway: SOU: 1897 1902 Georgia Southern and Florida Railway: Atlantic, Waycross and Northern Railroad: AW&N 1911 1924 St. Mary's Railroad [2] [3] Augusta Belt Railway: ACL/ L&N: 1896 1975 Georgia Railroad and ...