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Ernie Jones http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00032.html#0007882 February 12, 2004, 9:24 pm

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Car in pic appears to be 40's-50's.

From "History of Schley County Georgia".....

"....An excited crowd, moved by emotions ranging from
wonder to fright, gathered at Ellaville's depot the
afternoon of September 30, 1884 to witness one of the
most spectacular events in the town's history -- the
arrival of the first train.

Many daring citizens had gone by buggy to Andersonville
to make the inaugural excursion aboard the first train.
Among them were: E.W. Strange, Dr. W.D. Sears, C.R.
McCrory, Eugene Dixon, R.W. Edwards, W.D. Murray, E.S.
Baldwin, R.C. Meadows, Ben Strange, Claude Dixon,
DuPree Peacock, I.L. Lindsay, Jeff Miles, W.M. McCrory,
A. Allen, and Dr. Park.

Some of the passengers were somewhat afraid, but they
attempted to conceal their uneasiness and not until
much later did they admit it.

Among those who waited at the station were skeptics who
said the locomotives would never make the journey and
others who were frightened. But when the choo-choo
chugged in everybody hastened to examine the locomotive
and it's two tiny cars. The system was called the
Ellaville and Buena Vista Railroad and had been
financed by public subscriptions.......


The Central of Georgia Railroad assumed control of the
E and BV line in 1889, the tracks were extended to
Columbus, and Americus replaced Andersonville as the
terminus.

From the beginning throughout more than a quarter of
this century, the railway depot was the town's
transportation center. Twice within 14 years the depot
was burned, the first time in 1915 and the second in
1929.

Several have served as agents, among them: S.W. Miles,
J.R. Clark and D.L. Trussell.

Sometime in the late 1930s or 40s the local train was
discontinued. Only one passenger train for a while, The
Seminole, then later a streamliner was added.  At the
present time there are no passenger trains through
Ellaville, only freight trains.

Portions taken from "The Ellaville Sun" ...

Miss Une Tondee remembers the railroad: "At Christmas
time when teaching in Pavo, I was on the Georgia
Northern Train headed for home.  At Moultrie, Charles
Cook, who worked there came aboard. It was wonderful to
have someone to talk with on that slow train. Several
miles out in the wilds of nowhere the train stopped.
The conductor told us all to get off as trestle ahead
was wrecked and we would have to walk across the river
to the other side.  We pushed our way through bushes
and briars down to the river bank. Since slacks were
not known for women then, you can guess what happened
to me. What bothered me most was how I could cross the
river as my faith was less than Peter's about walking
on water.  Fortunately, the stream was shallow and high
stones had been put in every step. I pictured myself
slipping into the icy water, but with Charlie's
assistance, I reached the other bank where we had
another battle with briars. Backed up on the track was
another Georgia Northern train waiting to take us on to
Albany.

We barely reached Albany in time to catch the Central
of Georgia train for Americus. In Americus, waiting for
us, was another Central of Georgia train, "Little
Billy" which took us to dear old Ellaville."



Additional Comments:
I think my dad and the locals called this train (with 2 cars) the "2 Spot".

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