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[GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard

Robert Hanson
 

Chris - 

Back in the late 1980's, I made courtesy calls on the NS sales office in Augusta.  There was a salesman there, whose name escapes me now, who worked for the G&F prior to its demise.  He said that, when the Southern took over the G&F, they bought the assets from the company, not the company itself, so the corporate records, such as they were, were piled into a dumpster and that was that.

That is probably the main reason for the dearth of information on the G&F.

Bob Hanson
Loganville, GA


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Dills
To: GA RR History Group
Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 9:08 pm
Subject: [GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard

 
I'm trying to find a decent map of the G&F's Augusta yard. Do any of you have or know where I can find such a thing? And is there any chance that any of you have track profiles for the G&F?
 
THANKS!
Warren Stephens
 

Same thing happened with the TA&G. They pulled a dumpster below the windows of the former TA&G office building at Market and Main streets and pitched the stuff out the windows and into the dumpsters. I have had some success checking the records of connecting railroads. For instance the CofG had a TA&G file and there is TA&G stuff in the SRHA archives that I have yet to have time to look at. There may be G&F stuff in the SRHA archives but just Southern files on G&F, not files of the G&F.
 
Warren D. Stephens


--- On Fri, 2/8/13, Robert Hanson wrote:

From: Robert Hanson
Subject: Re: [GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard
To: GaRRHistory@...
Date: Friday, February 8, 2013, 7:55 AM

 
Chris - 

Back in the late 1980's, I made courtesy calls on the NS sales office in Augusta.  There was a salesman there, whose name escapes me now, who worked for the G&F prior to its demise.  He said that, when the Southern took over the G&F, they bought the assets from the company, not the company itself, so the corporate records, such as they were, were piled into a dumpster and that was that.

That is probably the main reason for the dearth of information on the G&F.

Bob Hanson
Loganville, GA


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Dills
To: GA RR History Group
Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 9:08 pm
Subject: [GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard

 
I'm trying to find a decent map of the G&F's Augusta yard. Do any of you have or know where I can find such a thing? And is there any chance that any of you have track profiles for the G&F?
 
THANKS!
Chris Dills <cddx@...>
 

Bob,
 
I heard a similar story regarding the records at the shop offices in Douglas. Apparently they just dumped everything into a dumpster.
Robert Hanson
 

Yeah, Warren, there seemed to be a lot of that going around at the time.

And yes, you can work around the lack of information by going at it from the "other end" of joint facility agreements, etc.

When I was compiling information for my books on the GaRR and WPR, I knew that CSX had trashed its archives (and I had purchased some of the info from a fellow who went "dumpster diving" and retrieved a portion of it.) so I went to the NS archives for info on jointly held facilities (e g - Augusta & Summerville RR) and jointly operated trains (Crescent, Piedmont Limited, et al.)

Now, the NS archives have been scattered, but for the most part, I understand that they still exist, at SRHA, Atlanta History Center, and other sites.

Bob Hanson


-----Original Message-----
From: WARREN STEPHENS
To: GaRRHistory
Sent: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 8:34 am
Subject: Re: [GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard

 
Same thing happened with the TA&G. They pulled a dumpster below the windows of the former TA&G office building at Market and Main streets and pitched the stuff out the windows and into the dumpsters. I have had some success checking the records of connecting railroads. For instance the CofG had a TA&G file and there is TA&G stuff in the SRHA archives that I have yet to have time to look at. There may be G&F stuff in the SRHA archives but just Southern files on G&F, not files of the G&F.
 
Warren D. Stephens

--- On Fri, 2/8/13, Robert Hanson <RHanson669@...> wrote:

From: Robert Hanson <RHanson669@...>
Subject: Re: [GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard
To: GaRRHistory@...
Date: Friday, February 8, 2013, 7:55 AM

 
Chris - 

Back in the late 1980's, I made courtesy calls on the NS sales office in Augusta.  There was a salesman there, whose name escapes me now, who worked for the G&F prior to its demise.  He said that, when the Southern took over the G&F, they bought the assets from the company, not the company itself, so the corporate records, such as they were, were piled into a dumpster and that was that.

That is probably the main reason for the dearth of information on the G&F.

Bob Hanson
Loganville, GA


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Dills <cddx@...>
To: GA RR History Group <garrhistory@...>
Sent: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 9:08 pm
Subject: [GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard

 
I'm trying to find a decent map of the G&F's Augusta yard. Do any of you have or know where I can find such a thing? And is there any chance that any of you have track profiles for the G&F?
 
THANKS!
Robert Hanson
 

Oh, yeah - this wasn't just a story.

This man helped load the dumpsters, along with everyone else still on the payroll at the time.

He regretted the action, but (a) he was doing as told, and (b) he had no place to store all that stuff.  Too bad there wasn't an SRHA around at that time.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Dills
To: GA RR History Group
Sent: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 8:45 am
Subject: RE: [GaRRHistory] G&F Augusta Yard

 
Bob,
 
I heard a similar story regarding the records at the shop offices in Douglas. Apparently they just dumped everything into a dumpster.
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