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Carolina Piedmont Railroad seen from Innovation Drive ICAR business Park logo on the front of the engine facing us is for the Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern engine .
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The Carolina Piedmont Railroad runs from Laurens SC, to Greenville SC it began as the Greenville and Laurens Railroad, which was chartered in 1878 and arrived in Greenville in 1882.
In 1896 it became (through merger) The Charleston and Western Carolina (which never reached Charleston), bought by Atlantic Coast Lines in 1897, but it continued to operate under the C&WC name. through a series of merges ACL became part of CSX and CSX to sold the portion from Laurens to a point short of downtown Greenville to the Carolina Piedmont Railroad on November 5, 1990.
A species of Sandwort, presumably the Piedmont Sandwort, also called One-flower Stitchwort. It has several Latin synonyms, often called Minuartia uniflora, but recently renamed Geocarpon uniflorum. This species is a common resident of shallow depressions on granite flatrock exposures. It typically colonizes soils just slightly deeper and dryer than the places colonized by Elf Orpine.
Location: Camp Meeting Rock, a property owned by The Nature Conservancy in the western piedmont of Georgia.
Piedmont Park near downtown Atlanta has a long history of horse racing. Dr. Benjamin Walker sold his land to the Gentlemen's Driving Club (later known as the Piedmont Driving Club) in 1887, and the land thus became home to an exclusive club and horse track. The Piedmont Exposition took place here in late 1887. In 1895, the Cotton States and International Exposition opened here, with the track oval being converted for the expo. An ad for the 1902 Interstate Fair indicates that 6 horse running races were held here. Fairs were held here until 1905, but a newspaper ad indicates that Bobby Walthour once again raced on foot against a trotting horse here in 1911. Motorcycle races were held on the horse track oval in 1912. The Piedmont Driving Club lives on today, although without the racetrack, whose footprint can still be traced as a jogging path within Piedmont Park.
Charlotte-bound Amtrak Piedmont train 73, lead by locomotive #1810 City of Greensboro, arrives at the locomotive's namesake city on a gray Sunday morning.
Hey James and the ABC 3340 Crew...
We love the snow...but we dream of warmer weather :-)
Michele Downey
Piedmont Elementary School
5th Grade Reading Teacher
Piedmont Park near downtown Atlanta has a long history of horse racing. Dr. Benjamin Walker sold his land to the Gentlemen's Driving Club (later known as the Piedmont Driving Club) in 1887, and the land thus became home to an exclusive club and horse track. The Piedmont Exposition took place here in late 1887. In 1895, the Cotton States and International Exposition opened here, with the track oval being converted for the expo. An ad for the 1902 Interstate Fair indicates that 6 horse running races were held here. Fairs were held here until 1905, but a newspaper ad indicates that Bobby Walthour once again raced on foot against a trotting horse here in 1911. Motorcycle races were held on the horse track oval in 1912. The Piedmont Driving Club lives on today, although without the racetrack, whose footprint can still be traced as a jogging path within Piedmont Park.