Railroad man

Railroad man

By Brian Schmidt | August 3, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Man in caboose cupola

Railroad man

Gainesville Midland Railroad conductor L. C. Birchfield is perched in a caboose cupola in the late 1950s. The railroad ran between Gainesville and Athens in northern Georgia and one time had a branch to Monroe. Seaboard Air Line purchased the road in June 1959. Philip R. Hastings photo

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