Atlanta, Georgia — Est. 1847
Atlanta, Georgia — April 8, 2026
We are pleased to announce the grand reopening of the website – codename Operation Phoenix – in a classic, newspaper format. It looks and works great on tablets! While the…
Atlanta, Georgia — April 1, 2026
This page is about Terminal Station, an Atlanta legend. Designed by architect Philip Thornton Marye and built in 1905, the Renaissance revival station would host as many as 80 trains per day. As Eisenhower's highways tore through postwar downtown, Terminal Station would remain a rally point for multiple Georgia railroads. And though the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) was not formed until an act of the 1965 Georgia Assembly, it was buses only; it would not offer commuter rail service until…
Read More →The interactive rail atlas charts active MARTA lines alongside abandoned routes, all converging at Terminal Station.
Open Full Map →Presented from ThreadATL, with sincere gratitude to Darin Givens. These posts chronicle the Gulch and the Terminal Station lot.
— David Emory
A CIM Group proposal would fill the Gulch with 9,000 parking spaces, effectively blocking any future passenger rail expansion at the historic junction where three railroads founded the city.
Read at ThreadATL →— Darin Givens
The State of Georgia releases a bid invitation for 9.5 acres of the Gulch — public land since the founding of Atlanta — with no protections for the planned Multimodal Passenger Terminal.
Read at ThreadATL →— Jeff Morrison
Where other cities leveraged rivers to revitalize historic districts, Atlanta has the Gulch — a dry riverbed of railroad tracks and asphalt, fundamental to the city's creation, yet one of its most challenging gaps.
Read at ThreadATL →— Sakshi Nanda
An urban design study tracing Atlanta's form back to the Terminus — the triangular railroad intersection that determined the city's layout, from the 1839 Zero-Mile Post to the present-day void.
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