Warren,
Your question still is unanswered, but here is another interesting St. Elmo article with nice old photos:
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Probably the most reliable information can be found in documents related to the 1929 annexation into Chattanooga.? I can tell you as a former resident of the community "next to" St. Elmo, it was pretty much defined by Chattanooga and N. Georgia citizens as extending from South Broad Street to the state line (north west/south east) and from--roughly--Ochs Highway on the side of Lookout Mountain east to the eastern side of Tennessee Avenue.
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I hope someone can find an annexation map to answer the question more definitively.
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Arnold Eaves
On 02/17/2021 10:59 AM Warren Stephens <wdstephens@...> wrote:
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Well I finally found the street car right of way Bob Sironen took me to see. There was even a historical monument. Street car tracks crossed the TAG yard at 45th street and you can see parallel cracks in the pavement in places where they simply paved over them.?
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The same man that built TAG also built a railroad called the Chattanooga Union Railway. He later sold this to AGS/Southern thus becoming Chattanooga's first millionaire. Under Southern ownership it was known as the Belt Railway of Chattanooga. The Belt was divided up into little snippets called "divisions". These include the Georgia, East Lake, River and Newby Divisions to name a few. TAG had trackage rights on the River Div, to the NC&StL Cravens yard and the from there Union Depot. On the Georgia Div. through the TAG yard to the state line and the Newby div. to the TAG freight depot and General office building. Does anyone have a notion about how the Belt Railway of Chattanooga operated in the early to late 20th century? Were all those grandiose division names a holdover from pre southern days? I sure would like to understand the Belt at it's traffic peak and across its decline and partial abandonment.
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On the southern group, there was a discussion about a proposed St. Elmo depot on the new trackage southern was building toward Lookout Mountain tunnel. Can someone enlighten me as to the proper boundaries of St. Elmo? On TAG, St. Elmo is down by the GA/TN state line. But then we all think of St. Elmo as being the environs of the Incline Railway? I assume that the boundaries must therefor run from the Incline neighborhood down to the state line? Also what are the boundaries of Alton Park? Other than Chattanooga Medicine Company, were there any industry in St. Elmo? I read once that of the Central of Georgia traffic that actually originated in greater Chattanooga, roughly 80 percent came from Alton Park. When Chattanooga contracted with the former L&N civil engineer, who had his own large engineering firm, to draw up plans to relocate the railroads out of downtown, his proposal was for the CofG to move their yard to Alton Park.?
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Funny thing about his relocation report, he gave a detailed report/count on freight and passenger train cars that passed through down town. TAG got credit for four passenger cars. In reality it was the Scooter motorcar's deadhead move to Union depot in the morning. Then southbound to Gadsden, then returning to Union Depot in the evening and then deadheading back to Alton Park for the night. One powered car but counted four times.? ?
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Warren
Warren Stephens