Atlanta roundhouse

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:56 am

Ex-Southern Railway. Looks like it has been adapted for other uses. Website has some doubled images, on top of each other. Anyone have some historic photos?

http://www.artery.org/NorthYards.htm
ryarger@rypn.org

John Craft · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2003 2:04 pm

> Ex-Southern Railway. Looks like it has been
> adapted for other uses. Website has some
> doubled images, on top of each other. Anyone
> have some historic photos?

See the link below. "North Yards" was "North Avenue Coach Yards," where passenger power and cars were serviced. In this 1949 aerial view, the table is already gone, track is torn up and a bypass track has been laid around the edge of the pit. Freight cars are stored where Pullmans used to rest. No more Ps4s will get serviced here - the "Crescent" and the "Southerner" are streamlined and diesel-powered.

It's also where steam power would lay over in the early days of the steam excursion program. The main freight yards were (and are) much farther northwest of downtown.

This redevelopment reopened about a year ago - I wanted to attend the grand opening but wasn't able to. A lot of industrial buildings along this rail corridor are now lofts and live-work buildings - a very vibrant part of town, very close to Georgia Tech and Centennial Park.

JAC

North Avenue Coach Yards from the air, 1949

John W. Coniglio · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:04 pm

John,
Your explanation about North Ave. Coach Yard reminded me of the night I wound up there photographing 4501 at about 3am. There was an 0-6-0 parked nearby, and a diesel. Several people swarmed over the engine, mostly cleaning it. One guy went on and on about the life and low pay of Southern Ry rod-wipers. It was all quite entertaining.

that other (lately neglected) Chattanooga website
mail@steamvalley.com

Andrew Durden · **Posted:** Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:11 pm

> John,
> Your explanation about North Ave. Coach Yard
> reminded me of the night I wound up there
> photographing 4501 at about 3am. There was
> an 0-6-0 parked nearby, and a diesel.
>
That 0-6-0 was most likely Georgia Power 97. It was stored and worked on at the coach yard before being moved to the Southeastern Railway Museum in the late 70's.

Southeastern Railway Museum
gapower97@yahoo.com