UPDATE - Folkston Rail Cam - No longer Cam of the Week

The webcams at Folkston are no longer cam of the week and the free YouTube feed has been disabled. There are several others available, Do a YouTube  search for Virtual Railfan.

The webcams at Folkston, Ga. are now online at Youtube. 

Thanks to Dixie at Whistling Dixie Cafe and Railfan Lodging for letting everyone know on her facebook page. 

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Southbound Folkston headed to Jacksonville 

Screenshot Saturday morning 11/3/2018 at 9:52 AM

https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html 

Macon Georgia Terminal Station

Before Terminal Station was built, Southern Railway passengers used this station built in 1886. On the left side of the picture is a trestle that took the Central of Georgia over the Southern tracks. 

Macon's 1916 Terminal Station, at the foot of Cherry Street downtown, is Georgia's grandest surviving railroad station. It was designed in the Beaux Arts style by architect Alfred Fellheimer (1875-1959), who with his partners also designed stations in Cincinnati, Buffalo, and other cities.
The 13-acre station was owned by the Macon Terminal Company, which in turn was owned equally by the Central of Georgia, the Southern Railway, and the Georgia Southern & Florida. Each of these companies, along with the Georgia Railroad, had offices on the upper floors. Other railroads using the station were the Macon, Dublin & Savannah and the Macon & Birmingham.
In 1926-27, the station handled as many as a hundred arrivals/departures each day. The eight tracks for through trains and ten tracks for local trains had platforms between each track. The through tracks were connected by a tunnel.

Terminal Station closed in 1975 and became offices for Georgia Power. The city purchased the building and refurbished it, completed in 2010.

Note the four eagles standing guard over the entrance.

Much more at RailGa.com.

H/T to Dan in Georgia again.

Mineral Bluff Depot

Mineral Bluff is located in Fannin County, GA about five miles NE of Blue Ridge.

The brick depot at Mineral Bluff was constructed in 1887 by the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad , a predecessor of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (now CSX). Located on the now-abandoned line from Blue Ridge, Georgia, to Murphy, N.C., it is only surviving M&NG depot in Georgia.
Using funding from the federal Transportation Enhancement program, the community rehabilitated the building in 2007. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. (News article on the listing.)
Source with more information and photos.

 


H/T to Dan for the link.

Midnight Train from Georgia

Another photo from Dan in middle Georgia:

But this time with Dan and one of his original Lee railroad caps.

Close up of the logo. The "from Georgia" is a bit hard to see.

B1B Lancer. The unit logo on the aircraft said 116 Bomb Wing. Found this:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/116bw.htm

Photos taken at the Museum of Aviation located at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Ga.

Forsyth Georgia Festival

Our friends in Middle Georgia went to a Festival in Forsyth, Georgia November 7 and visited a privately owned Railroad Museum. He was kind enough to share his photos with us. He and his wife were with us for  Folkston Railwatch Day April 11.

Here  is the information he provided with the photos.
He also sent the train horn ringtone.

"Those 4 or 5 indoor pictures were inside a privately owned museum. The lady owner was there to greet us. That building was the original passenger station but the building with the desk, phone was built later to be used as the new passenger station. The first one became the cotton/freight station. They are about 50' apart.

Btw, the lady owner said this was only about 1/6 of her railroad memorabilia. She's building a station at her home about 12 miles away"

Thanks Dan.