MACON TERMINAL STATION
MACON TERMINAL STATION Macon is certainly not the largest railroad hub in the country--not even in Georgia. In those years, the nation's railroads dominated and, as was befitting, they flaunted their…
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MACON TERMINAL STATION
Macon is certainly not the largest railroad hub in the country--not even in Georgia. In those years, the nation's railroads dominated and, as was befitting, they flaunted their grandeur by building lavish passenger stations. Yet in the early 1900s, with nearly 100 daily passenger trains, it had nothing about which to be ashamed.
Macon, however, was still being served by what the local media described as a "ramshackle structure" (the 1855 Union Depot) and a "little dingy smoky structure" (the equally embarrassing Southern Railway depot). In the South, virtually all of Macon's counterparts had been blessed with new eye-inviting stations. This all changed on December 1, 1916, when Macon Terminal Station's doors were thrown open to an eagerly awaiting populace.
This book traces the events that began some 78 years before, in 1838, with the entry of Macon's first railroad line and led to the