The Museum hosted its third annual Railroad Rendezvous, and railfans young and old gathered to take in model railroads, listen to railroad songs and participate in a hobo jungle. A number also enjoyed the rare opportunity to climb onto The General locomotive.
Outside the museum, CSX parked a CW44AC diesel-electric locomotive — No. 499 — on a spur track, giving attendees the chance to see a piece of modern-day motive power up close.
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The Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Ga., will host steam-powered trips at the museum on a pair of weekends this fall, marking the first time in roughly 15 years that steam trains have operated at the museum.
ATLANTA — During one of Atlanta’s biggest and most exciting weekends in recent memory, MARTA’s rail ridership spiked dramatically as large numbers of hometown customers and out-of-town visitors skipped the traffic jams and instead chose transit to attend the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and a host of other events. Beginning Friday April 5th when the Final Four events began until after the championship game on Monday, April 8th, MARTA saw an estimated 78 percent increase in rail ridership. During that period, there were about 1,140,000 total rail passenger boardings; about 500,000 more than on average days when no such events
