{"id":684,"date":"2008-08-08T09:18:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/current-owners-of-valdosta-train-stations.html"},"modified":"2008-08-08T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:18:26","slug":"current-owners-of-valdosta-train-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/current-owners-of-valdosta-train-stations.html","title":{"rendered":"Current Owners of Valdosta Train Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"So who owns the land\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/08\/valdosta-train-stations.html\">\nwhere the old Valdosta train stations were?<\/a>\n<p>\nThe old Atlantic Coast Line station lot, at the U-turn between\nPatterson and Ashley\njust north of the downtown overpass, is owned by the City of Valdosta.\nThat&#39;s kind of moot, since there are no tracks there now.\n<\/p><p>\nThe old Georgia &amp; Florida Station lot between Toombs and Patterson\nand between Savannah and Florida is owned by Lowndes County,\nas shown here:\n<\/p><p>\n<a style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stationowners\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341cb65b53ef00e553d656be8833\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a00d8341cb65b53ef00e553d656be8833-800wi.png\" title=\"Stationowners\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p><center>\n<font size=\"-2\">\nAs found on\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lowndescounty.com\/rsearch.asp\">\nLowndes County Property Record Search<\/a>\nby searching for owner CSX.\n<\/font>\n<\/center>\n<p>\nThe county Health Department is in the middle of it,\nbut the tracks run against the back parking lot.\nThese are the tracks that go to Moody.\n<\/p><p>\nAnd the old Georgia and Florida station lot, just south of that,\nis owned by CSX, as part of\na strip along their tracks from Toombs St. to Railroad Ave.:\n<\/p><blockquote>\nCSX TRANSPORTATION INC\n<br \/>\nTAX DEPARTMENT C-910\n<br \/>\n500 WATER STREET\n<br \/>\nJACKSONVILLE, FL 32202\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe old GSF Station lot, just south of that,\nbetween Toombs and Patterson and north of Florida Ave.,\nis owned by Norfolk and Southern.\n<\/p><blockquote>\nNORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO &amp; SUBSID\n<br \/>\nC\/O GULF &amp; OHIO RAILWAYS\n<br \/>\nPO BOX 2408\n<br \/>\nKNOXVILLE, TN 379012408\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nIt looks from the aerial maps like it&#39;s being used for a park,\nand there&#39;s some sort of tiny building on it, too.\nThese are the tracks that go to Hahira, Mineola, Remerton, Dasher, and Lake Park.\n<p>\nIf you select aerial photography you&#39;ll see that the tracks are currently located slightly differently than the map above shows.\n<\/p><p>\nHowever, it appears that new Valdosta train stations could be constructed with\nagreement from nobody other than Lowndes County and the railroads.\nWell, them and the planning commission, and the county commission, and the Valdosta City Council, and the various cities the passenger service would run to.\nBut the Valdosta station land itself seems to be in the hands of a small number of appropriate\nparties.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So who owns the land where the old Valdosta train stations were? 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