Tate, GA - Train Depot

North Georgia Railroad runs four trains on a regular schedule. Three passenger trains and one freight train. Two passenger trains run a year round schedule and one a seasonal schedule, during the winter months to accommodate the ski slopes of Sky Valley. The freight train is primarily used for the extensive marble industry in and around Tate, but is also used for the timber industry in the area as well as several smaller businesses. The names of the two year round trains are "The Spotted Bear Express" and "The Scenic Falls Limited" and the seasonal passenger train is "The Powder Ridge Special". Our single freight train is named "The Matrix Mountain Marble Mine". A separate Electronic Rail Pass is available for each train.

The actual railroad running thru Pickens County was initially chartered in Georgia as The Ellijay Railroad in 1854, seven years before the Civil War. The railroad was completed from Marietta to Canton and train service began there in 1879. The name was then changed to the Marietta and North Georgia Railroad Company. It took until 1883, for the railroad to reach Jasper, by 1884 it reached Ellijay and then by 1886 Blue Ridge and Mineral Bluff. Today the railroad is known as the Georgia Northeastern Railroad.

For more history on the actual railroad that North Georgia Railroad is modeled after click here.

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