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May 8th is NATIONAL TRAIN DAY!! The Milledgeville and Asylum Dummy Railroad On October 4, 1888, The citizens of Milledgeville turned out to witness a colorful and historical event. The occasion was the initial trip of the Milledgeville Dummy to operate from the Georgia Railroad Depot to the Asylum. The Milledgeville and Asylum Dummy Line Railroad, incorporated in 1888, was a five and a half-mile line, including its branches, with two cars operating from Milledgeville to ...the state mental hospital. It ran down Wayne Street from the Georgia Railroad on the north side of town, continued south though the business district, crossed over Fishing Creek, and continued south to the hospital. It made 12 to 18 trips a day. The line began as a street railway transporting passengers, but at some point, passenger service ended and the focus became hauling coal and freight to the hospital. Early steam engines were disguised to look like passenger cars, hence the name Dummy. Supposedly, the design was less likely to frighten horses than would an uncloaked steam engine. In 1954, a diesel engine replaced the steam engine and its cinder-laden smoke. The last train rolled through downtown Milledgeville in 1962. (RailGA.com. Georgia’s Railroad History & Heritage. Steve Storey; Photo credit to Chief Eugene Ellis See more

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