David Steinberg 128 pages softcover
Macon is certainly not the
largest railroad hub in the country--not even in Georgia. Yet in the
early 1900s, with nearly 100 daily passenger trains, it had nothing
about which to be ashamed. In those years, the nation's railroads
dominated and, as was befitting, they flaunted their grandeur by
building lavish passenger stations. In the South, virtually all of
Macon's counterparts had been blessed with new eye-inviting stations.
Macon, however, was still being served by what the local media described
as a "ramshackle structure" (the 1855 Union Depot) and a "little dingy
smoky structure" (the equally embarrassing Southern Railway depot). This
all changed on December 1, 1916, when Macon Terminal Station's doors
were thrown open to an eagerly awaiting populace. This book traces the
events that began some 78 years before, in 1838, with the entry of
Macon's first railroad line and led to the creation of Macon's downtown
treasure.
