ABANDONED Streetcar Tunnel and Atlanta’s Forgotten Trolley Line

[@1babysag]

Great history lesson. I hope that Atlanta recovers its love of streetcars. We lost it in Los Angeles and the result is hours of waiting time on the freeways and limited access by some communities because the freeways do not go to their areas as the streetcars once did. I really enjoy your videos and the clear way in which you explain things. Stay safe and keep producing quality videos for the rest of us to enjoy.

[@v12productions]

I really appreciate that! Thank you for watching!

[@SparerCheese]

If I'm not mistaken, MARTA is planning to lay down something like 40 miles of new light rail. Hopefully ushers in a new golden age for the streetcar. Right now the system is mediocre at best, but the current system runs right by my building downtown and I'm hoping in the next 10 years ill be able to take the streetcar to get around the city!

[@alcopower5710]

Like all your videos this is outstanding. Very underrated channel

[@v12productions]

I really appreciate that! Thanks for watching!

[@haledwards4642]

I possess a photograph (somewhere) taken in 1961 at the intersection of Peachtree, West Peachtree, and Baker Street showing some of the last electric line trollies in service in Atlanta.

[@v12productions]

I'd really like to see that!

[@andrewc1199]

Like Tampa, they should've never removed the streetcar system to begin with! It would certainly help Atlanta's horrible traffic.

[@tinacouch3531]

I love your videos. They're such are brilliant history lesson. I never knew this. Hopefully, one day the riverside line will reopen and return to service

[@v12productions]

Thank you!

[@shirleywilliams5124]

Proud of you my friend, I'm from Atlanta, you informed me on a lot of info I never knew. Keep going,🏊‍♂️ keep going this direction,🎯 you will continue to grow and grow. 😁🤝 you can do it! So creative.

[@v12productions]

Greatly appreciated! Thank you!

[@vr6swp]

My mom used to talk about the street cars in ATL. She lived near midtown in the mid - late 1940's and worked at American Telephone and Telegraph Co, the forerunner of AT&T

[@v12productions]

That's cool! My grandma used to ride them as well.

[@joemc4389]

That is fantastic information about the streetcars ending up in Seoul and elsewhere! I thought they were all scrapped

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@darrellborland119]

I'll give this one a thumbs up!...thanks,

[@douglasvillerailfan3994]

So is the tunnel you can see from the red light at bolton and marietta st ?

[@v12productions]

That's the one!

[@douglasvillerailfan3994]

@@v12productions i used to go down bolton rd everyday and always wondered. I always thought it looked railroad ish

[@unionpacificomaha]

This was very interesting! Thanks for the good history lesson

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@utterbullspit]

I've always been fascinated by this system and I'm still personally upset about the disappearance of this wonderful streetcar system.

[@StLouis-yu9iz]

Great video, lets rebuild our lost trolley networks!

[@davo1822]

Can you get to that station on foot? It looks like there's a path up front, and nowhere down Marietta Rd does it say no trespassing, but it does feel very out of place to drive down it.

[@v12productions]

I tried, but there's a recycling facility with a fence blocking the road. I think at one time it was accessible.

[@davo1822]

@@v12productions I drove into it yesterday in the afternoon and felt out of place, so I turned around out the gate. Apparently if you hop the guardrail under Marietta Blvd you can get down to the abandoned path that takes you right to it.

[@joshjosh6526]

More awesome rail history in my old stompin’ grounds! Too bad that in all the years i lived in the area, i never knew this all existed still. I figured the greater ATL powers that be would have already knocked them all down for more condo’s! Btw, do you know anything about the old trolley in Griffin,GA? Its a tattoo parlor now.

[@Prodigious1One]

Great video!

[@atlgardenstatuary]

My soon to be 95 year old father. Tells me he was in Korea during the war. He saw street cars on flatbed train cars. He went in them to investigate. The advertising on the walls were Atlanta businesses. He lives in Alabama. I will show him this video. Thanks

[@tommyburke5049]

we had some here,some scrapped,some sold to richmond VA.....

[@stevepope6095]

My Grandfather drove the Inman Park Trolly.

[@CarterWHern]

Well done!

[@v12productions]

Thanks!

[@Lakewood78-s9b]

Can you try to find more abandoned rail lines that we don't know about

[@v12productions]

I'm working on it. I may have one or two in mind that could make it into future videos.

[@kennixox262]

They should at least run a street car line up Peachtree all the way to Lenox.

[@rosephoenix4634]

I really like to see that this abandoned train line that it could transform to a sidewalk or walking or bicycle for the good up at to the people in for many different people that do have well relaxation starting into the abandoned train line and even to have fun and enjoy some kids riding a bicycle and even that refreshing oxygen for mother nature plants trees Flowers Garden sit down or something is could be a high line just like a New York City have one abandoned track Bow Wow and I transport into a beautiful different of unique it is if New York could do it why can't this town could do as well it's not that very difficult anyway many of people want to have more idea that why they got to do what is a bandit track of the line it is and it will be transformed into a something else I could be possible because there is more bigger space everyone should know that PS if the track and would right they're still there it could be saving and put it back before and after

[@ElliottWolcott]

That was a good video. How did you make this video?

[@v12productions]

Thanks! It took a lot of research!

[@ElliottWolcott]

V12 Productions Your welcome. What kind of research did you do to make this video?

[@v12productions]

@@ElliottWolcott I read a lot of articles and studies and also combed through archival databases.

[@ElliottWolcott]

V12 Productions That is so cool.

[@wesleyshelby8163]

Beautifully orchestrated! Thank you for this lost Atlanta history.😎🙏

[@v12productions]

Thanks for watching!

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

I saw, that there's defacing of property through graffiti , it must be the culprits property. ( I doubt that.).

[@rhondajohnson494]

They started back up streetcars. Only three miles in the cnn, edgewood area. Cars arent beautiful like the past. Sad the us dismantled streetcars.

[@CreamyPennePasta]

Any insulatorsv