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Hi everyone. I know this is a tag route group but I was hoping someone might be able to help with a project we're working on. I'm working with a group of contractors on the ccky between mp 442-443 reinforcing the hillside with steel piles. Would anyone have any knowledge or know someone that would have information about what had been previously done here before this project? We're trying to get an idea of what all might be in the ground below is. Any information is greatly appreciated!

Unfortunately the street view image is from 2007, is this still there? Near the intersection of Highways 193 & 341 in NE Georgia, near the TAG Tunnel https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y75rLVoU7TEyB6pG9

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I was in Chattanooga and I drove around the TAG yard at Alton Park. AMD/Southern Cellulose looked to be slow. Not many boxcars. The old Lookout oil, now some sort of used cooking oil recycling place had a few tank cars. CSX pulled out a good while ago, and I don’t know how much longer NS will be interested in Alton Park. The old streetcar track is still visible in the pavement on the west side of the old Chattanooga Glass property. They have started to demolish more of the glass work’s derelict buildings. CofG had a team track that wrapped around the west side. TAG had the rights to switch it. There is a beautiful old church on the west side of the old glass complex. The pastor there in the 1940s was a fellow named Dr. Mark Cambron. He was an early dean at Tennessee Temple. In the 40s he had an up a coming preacher in to speak at this church. A young man named Billy Graham. The Pods people have moved out from the former roundhouse/diesel shops/yard office location. It is clean as a whistle and I would love to metal detect there. I fear that at some point in the near future, developers will bulldoze the yard and put up apartments. It is happening all over south Chattanooga. If you have never visited the sight, I wouldn’t put it off much longer. Remember Gadsden yard is totally abandoned and will be a thicket soon. In other news, Todd Hortons, spotted the TAG heritage locomotive in Dalton a week or so ago. He was favorably impressed. The latest issue of Railfan and Railroad has a right up about it. I am sure Trains will do likewise. I hope we all get to see her. Warren

https://youtu.be/O65G6R7kEcQ?si=BFefDxpe52vcaHcs At about the five minute mark there will be some switching action at the long shuttered Gulf States Steel in Gadsden. One switcher is still in the yellow Republic Steel scheme. Mid to late 80s maybe. The yard on the north side of the overpass is Siskin Yard, named after the Siskin brothers, the last owners of an independent TAG. Southern named the yard after them as part of the butter up process of buying TAG. There is a SOU coil steel car in the yard. TAG had a small fleet of identical cars They bought the gondolas secondhand from Southern although they were rather new. Then Southern and TAG had identical covers made that were to Republic specs. I always thought it would make a cool model. SRHA probably has drawings of the gondola and the covers in their archives. But they tend to sit on what they have and sadly I don’t see them ever doing the car in any scale. Looks like the mill is busy. I was there a few years before they closed. I watched NS deliver a long string of coke or coal. Too bad they were unable to survive. Back in the day, one pay period a year, the steel mill paid their people in silver dollars so as they went about their commerce, folks in the community could see the impact of the mill on the local economy. Even railroads that didn’t serve the mill directly, wanted a piece of the traffic pie. The Central of Georgia proposed building a connecting track with TAG at about the Chattooga/Walker county line. To bypass Chattanooga and get the mill traffic miles sooner. This same guy posted many late 80s vids from greater Chattanooga. In case you are feeling nostalgic. Warren

Look at the aerial of the TAG yard. Search Alton Part, Tennessee. You’ll have to pan south a little bit to find it. Note the turntable is still in place in 1955 image but it appears to be gone in the 1958. Likewise, a little East you find the original CofG yard with no sign of Cummins yard. In the 1958 image, the new Cummins yard is in place but the footprint of the original yard is still visible. Note also that Rossville Boulevard is uncut in both images, because the NC&StL had yet to be rerouted and Southern had yet to be elevated. Warren https://www.historicaerials.com/

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Please share and cross-post. ------------------------------------------------------ 66th Atlanta Model Train Show Saturday, January 18, 2026 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Gas South Convention Center (Formerly the Infinite Energy Forum) 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 Atlanta's OLDEST and LARGEST MODEL TRAIN and RAILROADIANA SHOW ! Over 300 Tables of Model Trains and Railroad Collectibles For Sale ! Seven Operating Layouts ! Admission $12, Children under 12 Free. Early admission $25. Good for all times. Parking deck - $5 for up to 12 hours, credit/debit card only Admission discount card https://www.gserr.com/shows/AtlantaDiscountJan2025.pdf For Dealer Contracts and Show Information contact: Charlie Miller 3106 N. Rochester Street Arlington, VA 22213 Telephone :703-536-2954 Fax: 703-241-7027 e-mail: rrshows@... Web Site: www.gserr.com

Cross-posting Bill Delmar Atlanta, Ga ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Thomas Howard via groups.io <thomas.howard42@...> Date: Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM Subject: [SErails] NS 224 with the TA&G trailing To: SERails <serails@groups.io> NS 224 with the TAG trailing at CP Daisy NS 224 with the TAG trailing at CP Daisy Thomas Howard

Do they not have the old Southern Railway Chattanooga paint shop at Citico/DeButts any more? The original four TAG diesels were repainted there. When TAG purchased the 80, they contracted with Southern to paint the other four so they would all look fresh. You can judge the approximate year a picture of the GP7s and the GP18 was taken by the freshness of the paint. Fresh from EMD, they had trust plates. Fresh from Southern’s paint shop, no trust plate. I guess the Chattanooga paint shop fell after the Conrail merger. That overall facility in Altoona must be impressive. The folks in Penn did a mighty fine job. Warren

Gorgeous Brad T. Culligan

Supposedly she - the TAG Heritage Unit- has arrived in Chattanooga for an NS event. Does anyone know what is going on? In this footage she is seen coming down the CNOT&P and over Tenn-Bridge. Ironically the CNOT&P where this was shot, was the TAG’s primary northern outlet. Warren https://youtu.be/1nbWJW2CD7U?si=Qs7mSHtvI12-2ZXC

At 5:30-6:30 min. mark in the linked video, you see the new TAG heritage locomotive traversing Horseshoe Curve in the snow. Beautiful. One of my favorite TAG boxcar slides is a TAG 50 foot boxcar heading over Horseshoe Curve. TAG acquired those for the carpet mill at Archer, GA west of Lafayette. You know I understand that D&H actually won the online poll that NS conducted but they did TAG anyway. https://youtu.be/zOSvYUKAefo?si=zaRaXWlCbY960Vpm Warren

From Trains.com's Newswire- Norfolk Southern debuts Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia heritage locomotive By Trains Staff | December 3, 2024 The unit was painted at the Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona, Pa. Norfolk Southern has saluted the Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway with a heritage locomotive. NS ALTOONA, Pa. – Norfolk Southern has unveiled its Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway heritage locomotive. The glossy blue unit, AC44C6M No. 4851, made its debut in a video that NS posed on its social media channels last night. The video shows Juniata Locomotive Paint Shop employees working on the locomotive. The Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia traces its roots to 1891, when the Chattanooga Southern Railway completed its line from its namesake city in Tennessee to Gadsden, Ala. The railroad entered receivership in 1892 and was reorganized as the Chattanooga Southern Railway. The TAG emerged from the Chattanooga Southern’s 1911 receivership. NS predecessor Southern Railway acquired the 87-mile TAG in 1971. In October, NS nominated four railroads – Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway; Atlantic & East Carolina Railroad; Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway; and the Delaware & Hudson Railway – as candidates for its latest heritage locomotive and sought votes on social media. The railroad displayed the locomotive at a town hall meeting with employees in Altoona today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp4qm0vgpLc

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NS considering TAG Heritage unit https://www.facebook.com/100064395865133/posts/pfbid0WxyvH6ZvZZ2g1zv8TT4AqyPhVaGXrgbYnjgyiPfJKa4k8Dekt1mUCBG6eXA8aiuQl/?app=fbl Brad T. Culligan

This video depicts a surviving Brill model 55 motorcar. Remember TAG ran two of these branded as “The Scooter”. For the first half or so they are running in reverse. Later you see it traveling forward. Not sure if the horn on the TAG Scooters sounded the same. The TAG cars came with gasoline engines but were later retrofitted with diesels. Other larger railroads ran these on branch lines including the CofG and NC&StL. Warren https://youtu.be/sMW0ulhQgn4?si=Qx8vr7f67mzuP3t-