{"id":665,"date":"2008-09-02T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/valdosta-depot-atlantic-coast-line-railroad.html"},"modified":"2008-09-02T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T11:05:00","slug":"valdosta-depot-atlantic-coast-line-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/valdosta-depot-atlantic-coast-line-railroad.html","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta Depot, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a train at the ACL station in Valdosta:\n<p>\n<a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef00e554f5c1688834-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef00e554f5c1688834 image-full\" alt=\"ACL Depot\" title=\"ACL Depot\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef00e554f5c1688834-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t know the vintage of this picture. Those more clever than me could try dating it\nby the style of the Coca-Cola ads or the electrical poles or the clothes or the\nlocomotive engine. I would guess 1920s.\n<p>\nThis is the railroad (then known as the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad)\nthat caused Troupville residents to uproot themselves\nand to found Valdosta as the Lowndes County seat at the present location,\non the main line from Savannah to Thomasville.\nSo this is the original Valdosta train station.\nI don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the original building, but it&#8217;s the original location,\nbetween Patterson and Ashley, where the overpass starts now.\n<p>\nPicture courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostamuseum.org\/\">\nLowndes County Historical Society.<\/a>\nThey&#8217;ve got a caboose out back, too.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a train at the ACL station in Valdosta: I don&#8217;t know the vintage of this picture. Those more clever than me could try dating it by the style of the Coca-Cola ads or the electrical poles or the clothes or the locomotive engine. I would guess 1920s. This is the railroad (then known as [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[2194,2187,2196,3,2,1811,981,1372,2195,2193,45],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-atlantic-and-gulf-railroad","tag-atlantic-coast-line","tag-depot","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-railroad","tag-savannah","tag-thomasville","tag-train-station","tag-troupville","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}