MANCHESTER, Ga. — The small west Georgia city of Manchester is a great place for watching trains.
To capitalize on its popularity among railfans, the city some years ago built a train watching platform. The city has also hosted an annual Railroad Days celebration in past years.
The photos in this gallery were taken on Sept. 29, 2012.
ATLANTA — MARTA, metro Atlanta’s mass transit system, is reviewing the so-called station gaps, the distance between subway stops, according to a report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Officials hope adding more stations to the 48-mile line will attract more riders. Extending the rail line would cost roughly $100 million per mile, while building the “infill stations” might be a cheaper approach. “MARTA’s approach has always been to extend the line, and once they’ve built that, development would come,” Lara Hodgson, a member of metro Atlanta’s regional Transit Planning Board, told the newspaper. “But what if you did the opposite?” she added. “What if you build where development already is?” —
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