(rshsdepot) Re: Augusta, GA

[Andy Ingraham Dwyer <adwyer_@_io.com>]

>
> While I don't have any personal knowledge of the location, using Google's
> satellite map function it looks like there are no longer active tracks near
> the station.  To the northwest you can see a bridge crossing the Savannah
> River but the tracks appear to end just after you cross into Georgia.
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5th+St+%26+Reynolds+St,+Augusta,+GA+30901&ie=U
> TF8&hl=en&ll=33.475894,-81.959097&spn=0.007857,0.021458&t=h&om=1


For what it's worth, the tracks that go/went over the bridge just 
northwest of Route 1 *appear* to continue down the center of Washington 
Street.  Washington St appears to have solid yellow lines that are 
separated by a single-track width down the center.  And each of the 
streets that cross Washington appear to have narrow-format railroad grade 
crossing pavement markings (the large "X" with the "RR" below, instead of 
inside the "X").  From the overhead angle, it is difficult to tell whether 
there are any active crossbucks along this line.  Plus, no telling how 
old the satellite photo is.  Could be 2005, could be 1995.

But if you follow Washington about 10 blocks southwest, just past Taylor 
there is what seems to be an active yard, with a wye just a little further 
on.  And other active yards down each way from the wye on the other side 
of Gwinnett Blvd.



- -Andy


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