{"id":689,"date":"2008-08-05T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T12:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/valdosta-train-stations.html"},"modified":"2008-08-05T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T12:56:05","slug":"valdosta-train-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/valdosta-train-stations.html","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta Train Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"In The TitleTown Express<\/a>,\nI guessed at where a Valdosta train station should go.\nI was thinking where West Hill Ave. crosses the GS&F line from Hahira, but that’s\na mile from downtown: too far out.\nWhy not look to see where the Valdosta train station was before?\nWell, it seems there was not one, not two, but three<\/em> stations\nin Valdosta, at least in 1919:\n

\n\"Valdosta,\n<\/p>

\nSource map<\/a> found in\n\nPerry-Casta\u00f1eda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin<\/a><\/font>\n<\/p>

\nThere was one station each for:\n<\/p>

\n
\nAtlantic Coast Line R.R.\n<\/dt>
\nbetween Patterson and Ashley just N. of Savannah Ave.,\n
\nwhere the U-turn now is before the overpass;\n
\nthese tracks were rerouted when the overpass was built;\n
\nironic considering that’s the line that caused Valdosta\nto be located where it is\n

\n<\/p><\/dd>

\nGeorgia and Florida R.R.\n<\/dt>\n
\nW. of Patterson between Savannah Ave. and Branch St.\n(now W. Florida Ave.) about at where S. Toombs St. now crosses;\n
\nthese tracks go under the overpass;\n
\nthese are the tracks that go to Moody\n

\n<\/p><\/dd>

\nGeorgia Southern & Florida R.R.\n<\/dt>\n
\nJust W. of Patterson S. on Branch St. (now W. Florida Ave.);\n
\nthese tracks go under the overpass;\n
\nthese are the tracks that go to Hahira, Mineola, Remerton, Dasher, and Lake Park\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\nAll next to Patterson Street south of Hill Ave.,\nand within easy walking distance of each other and downtown.\n

\nSo 2 out of 3 station locations still have running tracks\n(and the third I think also has running tracks; they were just\nrerouted to go under the underpass).\nI have no idea who owns the station footprints.\nWouldn’t have to be precisely the same locations, anyway;\nsomewhere within a block or two would have the same\nadvantages of accessibility to each other and to downtown.\n<\/p>

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