{"id":681,"date":"2008-08-10T17:03:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/valdosta-moultrie-western-railroad-ga-133-and-corridor-z.html"},"modified":"2008-08-10T17:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T21:03:45","slug":"valdosta-moultrie-western-railroad-ga-133-and-corridor-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/valdosta-moultrie-western-railroad-ga-133-and-corridor-z.html","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta, Moultrie & Western Railroad, Ga. 133, and Corridor Z"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading about\n\nthe committee wanting to widen Ga. 133 from Valdosta through Moultrie\nto Albany<\/a> made me wonder if there had ever been a railroad on that route.\nWhy yes, there was:\n

\n\"VM&W<\/a>\n<\/p>

\n\n\nSource: Rand McNally Standard Map of Georgia, in Commercial Atlas of America, 1920<\/a>,\nfound on\n\nGeorgia's Railroad History & Heritage. by Steve Storey<\/a>\n<\/font>\n<\/center>\n

\nIt ran two trains each way each day in 1918 (one was different on Sunday):\n<\/p>

\n\"VM&W<\/a>\n<\/p>

\n\nSource: Official Guide of the Railways<\/em>, April 1918,\nfound on\n\nGeorgia's Railroad History & Heritage. by Steve Storey<\/a>\n<\/font>\n<\/center>\n

\nLike Valdosta earlier on a different railroad,\n\nthe town of Berlin was founded because of the VM&W RR.<\/a>\n<\/p>

\nUnfortunately, it was short-lived, lasting only\nfrom 1910 to 1921<\/a>.\nIts demise seems to have been connected with\n<\/p>

\n…the final depletion of the vast supply of timber about 1922\nand the railroad systems which had played such an important role\nin the flourishing development of Berlin ceased operations.\n

\n\u2014\nThe Origin of Berlin<\/a>,\nBerlin Community Volunteer Fire Department Station 31, Berlin, Georgia,\naccessed 10 August 2008\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt's hard to tell from that brief quotation\nwhether the end of the timber caused the failure\nof the railroads, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a factor.\n

\n<\/p>

\n

\nI see the Lowndes County Commission\nhas on\n\nits agenda for Tuesday 12 August<\/a>\na "Resolution in Support of a Four-Lane Project for State Hwy 133 from\nAlbany to Valdosta.\nThis is the same resolution that was before\n\nColquitt County Commission on August 5<\/a>.\n<\/p>

\nBefore the Lowndes County Commission votes,\nit would be useful to know what have been the effects of\n\nCorridor Z<\/a>,\nthe four lane highway from Jekyll Island to Columbus\nby way of Tifton and Albany, also known as Ga. Route 520.\nHas it produced the effects the committee for widening Ga. 133 wants?\nHas it benefited agriculture and industry?\nHas it led to more opportunities?\nWhat ill effects on local landowners and environment did its construction have?\n<\/p>

\nAnd what do the people think who live along the route of Ga. 133?\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading about the committee wanting to widen Ga. 133 from Valdosta through Moultrie to Albany made me wonder if there had ever been a railroad on that route. Why yes, there was: Source: Rand McNally Standard Map of Georgia, in Commercial Atlas of America, 1920, found on Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. by Steve Storey […]","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":[1736,12,556],"tags":[2220,1452,2219,2218,2,1096,2217,2221,45],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lowndes-county-commission-georgia","category-politics","category-travel","tag-albany","tag-colquitt-county","tag-corridor-z","tag-ga-133","tag-lowndes-county","tag-moultrie","tag-moultrie-western-railroad","tag-timber","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-aZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}