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The Western & Atlantic Rail
road’s Terminals, Sidetracks,
Etc.
There is not, probably, in all Amer
ica, a railroad which has such magnifi
cent terminals and such an abundance
of sidetracks, at all necessary points
along its line, as the Western & At
lantic.
The main line of the Western &
Atlantic, from Atlanta to Chattanooga,
is 138 miles long ; but it has 42 miles
of sidetracks in Atlanta, Chattanooga,
Dalton and at other points along its
line, making a total mileage, of main
line and sidetracks, of 180 miles.
By reason of this profusion of side
tracks, between Chattanooga and At
lanta, there is practically no difficulty
in changing freight and passenger
schedules and making different meet
ing points for the various trains.
One troubleaboutsome railroad lines
is that they have such a scarcity of
sidetracks between their terminals,
that when they are handling a pretty
fair amount of business their freight
trains are unable to get into the scant
supply of sidetracks at meeting points,
and the result is that passenger trains
have to take the sidetracks to allow
freights to pass, or else the passenger
and freight trains get mixed up and
have to “see-saw,” thus killing some
times many minutes, and, probably,
an hour, before they can go forward
on an unobstructed track.
Herein is a great strength of the
Western & Atlantic. Although there
are, in the busy season, frequent instan
ces of where it runs from six to eight
trains on a schedule, yet passenger
trains are never put to any inconve
nience from this cause. When they
arrive at meeting points the freight
trains are in the long sidetracks, and
the mail trans rush by as if there was
not a freight train within a hundred
miles of them.
Passengers going over the Western
& Atlantic, therefore, have reason
able assurance that there will be none
of those petty annoyances in the matter
of delays which sometimes, and on
some lines, frequently cause the miss
ing of schedules with their connections.
The perfect system with which the
Western <fc Atlantic Railroad is
worked ; the thorough understanding
and almost brotherly feeling that ex
ists between its officers and employes,
make it the strongest road for its size
in the country, or as it has been said,
“The biggest thlngfor its size in Amer
iky.”
The terminals of the Western &
Atlantic are especially and notably su
perior. In Chattanooga, for instance,
its passenger trains run into the union
depot, and its freight depot and yards
are immediately alongside Market
street, the business thoroughfare of
the city.
In addition to this, the East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co.
rents from the Western & Atlantic
the right to run its trains through
the Western & Atlantic’s yard, thus
connecting its Memphis & Charles
ton division with the other divisions.
ATLANTA, GA.
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1. '-Union Passenger Depot.
2. —Kimball House.
3. —Artesian Well.
4. —Western Union Telegraph Office,
Southern Express Office, Wholesale
Dry-Goods, Drug and Hardware
Houses.
5. —Markham House.
6. —Georgia Railroad Freight Depot.
7.8, 9. —Wholesale Grain, Hay, Meat,
Flour, etc., Houses.
10. —Newspaper and Job Printing Offices.
11, 12, 13.—Six State and National Banks,
wholesale Grocery Houses, and South
ern Telegraph Office.
14. —Fulton County Court House.
15. —Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
16. 17.—Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal and
Presbyterian Churches.
18. —New Georgia State Capitol (being
erected).
19. —DeGive’s Opera House, Telephone Ex-
change.
20. —Post-office, Custom House, U. S.
Circuit Court, and Hotel Wcinmeister.
21. —Present Georgia State Capitol.
The following are the Railroads centering in the Union Passenger Depot, viz.: Western
& Atlantic, Central of Georgia, Atlanta & West Point, Georgia, Richmond & Dan
ville, and Georgia Pacific.
There is no omnibus transfer between these roads, all changes being made in Union
Depot. •
All Street-car Lines in Atlanta either start from, or pass within, one square of Union
Passenger Depot.
The accompanying map shows the business portion of Atlanta. The Union Passenger
Depot is in the exact center of the city, the city limits being one mile and a half distant.
Scale of distance, one-fourth of a mile to one inch. Street-car Lines indicated thus -- - -
The Cincinnati Southern Railway
Co. also pays a like rental to the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad Co., for
privileges in Chattanooga.
At Dalton, the Western & Atlan
tic passenger trains stop at the union
depot immediately by the hotels, and
its freight depot is within thirty steps
of the union passenger depot.
The East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia Railway Co. also rents from
the Western & Atlantic Railroad Co.
the use of nearly 1,400 feet of the
Western & Atlantic track in Dalton,
and runs its trains over this portion
of the Western & Atlantic Railroad,
with the proviso that if its trains are
behind time they are not to proceed
over this track against W. A A. R. R.
trains which are due.
Some of the leading business estab
lishments in Dalton are also along the
Western & Atlantic sidetracks.
At Cartersville the Western &
Atlantic Railroad Co. allows the East
& West Railroad of Alabama to run
upon its right of way down into the
center of the little city. It also allows
the same privileges to the Marietta &
North Georgia Railroad, at Marietta.
In Atlanta the Western & Atlan-
THE KENNESAW GAZETTE.
REFERENCES.
22. —Western & Atlantic Railroad Gen-
eral Offices, Freight Depot, Round
house and Car Shops.
The vacant space here shown is oc
cupied by railroad tracks, etc., and no
vehicles can go across. A ravine di
vides the southwest side.
23. —Central Railroad of Ga., and At-
lanta & West Point Railroad
Freight Depot.
24. —East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad Passenger Depot.
25. —East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad Freight Depot.
26. —Georgia Pacific Railway Freight De-
pot.
27. —Governor’s Mansion.
28. —Richmond & Danville Railroad
Freight Depot.
29. 30, 31, 32.—Manufacturing Establish-
ments and Grain Elevator.
33. —Capitol City Club.
34. —Southern R’y and Steamship Associa-
tion Offices, Cannon House, National
Hotel.
tic Railroad passenger trains enter the
union depot, being the only transpor
tation line from the west which enjoys
this privelige.
Its freight depot and general offices
are within a couple of hundred yards
of the geographical center of the city,
and its sidetracks run behind the great
wholesale houses directly across the
street from the Kimball and Markham
houses and other hotels. A majority
of the leading manufacturing estab
lishments of Atlanta are also located
on the line of the Western & A tian
tic Railroad.
In Atlanta, the Georgia Pacific Rail
way Co. rents from the Western A
Atlantic Railroad Co. the privilege of
running its passenger trains over the
Western <fc Atlantic Railroad into
the union depot. The East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia Railroad Co. has
also arranged with the Western &
Atlantic Railroad Co. to transfer the
freights of the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia & Georgia Railway through
the Western A Atlantic yard to
connecting lines in Atlanta.
Thus it will be seen, that the West
ern and Atlantic is master of the sit
uation in Georgia so far as concerns
physical advantages in the matter of
handling and delivering freight, and
maintaining the comfort hnd conven
enceof passengers.
Psalm CHI.
1 An exhortation to bless God for His mercy,
15 an I for the constancy thereof.
A Psalm of David.
BLESS the Lord, () my soul; and all
that is within me, bless his holy name.
2. Bless the Lord, () my soul, and forget
not all his benefits:
3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth all thy diseases:
4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruc
tion: who crowneth thee with loving kind
ness and tender mercies:
5. Who satistieth thy mouth with good
things; so that thy youth is renewed like
the eagle’s.
(>. The Lt rd executed) righteousness and
judgment for all that are oppressed.
7. He made known his ways unto Moses,
his acts unto the children of Israel.
8. The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9. He wdl not always chide: neither will
he keep his anger forever.
10. lie hath not dealt with us after our
sins; nor rewarded us according to our in
iquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the
earth so great is his mercy toward them
that fear linn.
12. As far as the east is from the west, so
far hath he removed our transgressions from
us.
13. Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
14 Eor he knoweth our frame; he remem
bered) that we are dust.
1"). As lor man his days are as grass; as
a flower of the field, so he flourished).
10. Eor the wind passed) over it, and it is
gone; and the place thereof shall know it no
more. •
17. But the mercy of the Lord is from
everla-ting to everlasting upon them that
fear him, and his righteousness unto child
ren’s children:
18. To such as keep his covenant, and to
those that remember his commandments to
do them.
19. The Lord hath prepared nis throne
in the heavens, and his Kingdom rulethover
all.
20. Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that ex
cel in strength, that do his commandments,
hearkening unto the voice of his word.
21. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts;
ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
22. Bless ye the Lord, all his works in
all places of his domini »n ; bless the Lord,
O my soul.
At just about the opening of the bat
tle of Allatoona, October sth, 1864,
General Corse had one of the men of
the signal corps to stand upon the top
of a big stump on the east side of Al
latoona Pass within the entrenchments,
and told him to communicate by sig
nals with Kennesaw Mountain, if pos
sible.
While he was waving the signal flag
and thus endeavoring to carry out this
order, a piece of shell from Myrick’s
battery, which had opened upon the
redoubt, struck the flag staff and
knocked it out of the signal sender’s
hand.
He instantly leaped to the ground
and ran down the hill on the north
side of the ridge, “and,” said the Gen
eral, recently, with a jocular twinkle
of his eye, “it is supposed that he is
probably running yet, as he has never
been seen since that day.”
The Western A Atlantic Railroad is
the only railroad in Georgia which has
four daily freight schedules from one
of its termini to the other. Conse
quently, freight forwarded via the
Western A Atlantic, from the west to
the southeast, it it misses one schedule
has a chance at three others the same
day. This makes it emphatically a
FAST FREIGHT LINE, and shippers
have found it out, and are acting in
accordance with their interests.
Marietta is the sanitarium of North
Georgia.
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