Dixie Terminal

[Weknoz]

 Back in the late 1930's my dear Mother; a single woman at the time attended Nurse training in Macon, GA...   She went on to become an RN and retired in 1990 as a hospital Administrator in FLA...

 A few years back, we stopped and visited the central Train Station in Macon, GA.  The building is in excellent condition, Ga Power maintains the facility and has offices in the upper section...

 Well we visited and walked through the Main Terminal, saw the shoe shine stand by the bathroom,  The ticket counters and the place the passingers waited...  The Tall curved ceiling and beautiful wood work were impressive even some fifty years later...


 The interesting fact was that there were several parallel tracks beside the building, which had a tunnel so people could walk out to the trains on the far tracks...  They say that in 1940 there were over 150 trains a day leaving the station... 

 This is before the airplane had become the major mode of mass transit for the nation and much of the world...  It must have been an impressive sight to see all those people come and go on those trains...  These were steam engines, and there was not any A/C in the rail cars...  So it was a different world of travel then...  And my mother was part of it...

 I can even remember she brought my brother and I , up  from Fla on a train some where back around 1950...   My Grandmother lived right by the train tracks, so we were well aware of the steam locomotives and the noise of the trains... 
 I learned to walk the rail and would wave at the engineers on the passing trains; they would toss small paper bags of candy to us if we were out in the yard...   It is pretty much of a by gone era...  But it is one I will remember, and one my mother enjoyed...

 Gone is not forgotten...    I have some photos of that visit which I will post on the Photo Section soon, stop by and enjoy a piece of the past!!