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Atlanta’s Terminal Station<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Terminal at the Wye, Historical Geography, and a Possible Afterlife<\/p>\n

The Wye of Downtown Atlanta<\/strong><\/p>\n

A wye is a railroad track configuration in which two or more lines come together in a triangular, or \u201cY\u201d shape. The Circle Wye lies in the middle of Atlanta\u2019s original downtown, and explains the why<\/em> of the city. Why does the city sit where it does? The Circle Wye was built in 1846 when the Macon and Western Railroad\u2019s Macon-Atlanta line reached the Western and Atlanta line from Chattanooga and the Georgia Railroad, coming from Augusta. The City of Atlanta was incorporated the next year. A few generations after that, Terminal Station rose at the Circle Wye, a portal into the city for passengers and freight. The station presided over the junction for nearly three quarters of a century, until rail\u2019s long decline sealed its fate.\"ATL<\/a><\/p>\n


\nThe Atlanta Preservation Center<\/a> calls the wye \u201cThe Shape that is the Heart of Atlanta\u201d and it advocates that \u201cthe unique shape and history formed by these railroad lines\u2026be kept intact and honored with future designs of the site.\u201d\u00a0What the Center has in mind is the proposed Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal, planned for a site on the wye adjacent to where Terminal Station once stood. The Circle Wye helped bring the city to life and it may yet revive its downtown from the slowly debilitating effects of suburbanization\u2014a process different by a different sort of transportation.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Historical Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Visual History of Rail\u00a0\u2193<\/a><\/p>\n

\"QUADRANT<\/a><\/p>\n

\"QUADRANT<\/a><\/p>\n

3D Models\u00a0\u2191<\/td>\n

Historic Vignettes\u00a0\u2193<\/a><\/p>\n

\"QUADRANT<\/a><\/p>\n

\"QUADRANT<\/a><\/p>\n

Then & Now Photos\u00a0\u2191<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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A Possible Afterlife<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"MMPT<\/a>
The Multi-Modal Passenger Terminal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Created as an Emory University class project for ENVS 385: Visualizing the City<\/p>\n

Brandon Grant, Laura Lacombe, Tom Rogers, and Megan Slemons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlanta’s Terminal Station The Terminal at the Wye, Historical Geography, and a Possible Afterlife The Wye of Downtown Atlanta A wye is a railroad track configuration in which two or more lines come together in a triangular, or \u201cY\u201d shape. The Circle Wye lies in the middle of Atlanta\u2019s original downtown, and explains the why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2816,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/atlantarail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}