Re: Atlanta MARTA...

[HARHBG]

Does anyone who reads this forum know or can tell me how much of MARTA is underground and where the lines surface?

Doing some research and would be very grateful for any info or leads as to where I might find the info I'm looking for.

Also, does anyone know if the old "Grande Dame" RR Station in Atlanta is still standing or has it been torn down?

THANKS !! so much for any and all info.

 

[MattW]

MARTA runs underground on the Red/Gold lines from the Garnett Station to north of Arts Center. College Park and Lindbergh stations (not adjacent to each other) on both lines are also underground though only for a short stretch each. Additionally, Lenox on the Gold Line is grade-level but under a building kind of. Buckhead station on the Red Line is also under a building and in the middle of a highway. The Red Line runs underground from shortly before Medical Center to Medical Center. Sandy Springs stations on the Red Line is underground. On the Blue/Green lines, there's an underground segment between Kensington and Avondale, then the line is underground from just east of Avondale through Decatur to just east of East Lake. Then it goes back underground between Georgia State and and west of Ashby. Everything else is at-grade or elevated, or in a cut.

As far as railroad stations in Atlanta itself, the only remains are some track leads formerly to Terminal Station south of the "gulch" area (just west of Five Points), and the old Union Station platform just to the northeast.

 

[haolerider]

The "gulch" in downtown Atlanta is part of a proposed development in the area of Philipps Arena. This development has been discussed many times; however the new owner of the Atlanta Hawks has been pressuring the local government to improve/develop the area around the arena to draw more fans to an area that can be sketchy. With the opening of the College Football Hall of Fame and improvements to the Omni, the Georgia World Congress and the new Falcons stadium, this may be the time that something positive is done. Discussion of a "real" tran station for Amtrak has also been discussed in the area of the old terminals, but that discussion has gone no where in the past 20 years!

 

[bretton88]

Urbanrail.net has the information about above ground/ underground you're looking for on its Atlanta map.