HISTORY ESTELLE NARROW GUAGE RAILWAY. WALKER COUNTY GEORGIA

[Anonymous]

I'M A NEW MEMBER LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ON THE ESTELLE MINING, NARROW GUAGE RAILWAY. THIS  WAS LOCATED IN WALKER COUNTY GEORGIA. THE MINE WAS OPERATED AROUND THE EARLY 1920'S THROUGH THE MID 1930'S.  DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION OF THE 7 TUNNELS THAT WERE PART OF THIS RAIL LINE?  I HAVE FOUND THE PIGEON MOUNTAIN TUNNEL WHICH WAS PART OF THE OLD T.A.G. (TENNESSEE,ALABAMA.GEORGIA) LINE. THIS TUNNEL IS VERY IMPRESSIVE IT IS CURVED AND ALMOST 1 MILE LONG. ALSO LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ON THE LOCATION OF THE ACTUAL TOWN OF ESTELLE. (WHICH IS A GHOST TOWN) WE HAVE LOCATED THE ESTELLE CEMETARY. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT TOWN THIS LARGE HAS JUST VANISHED WITH OUT ANY TRACE. ANY HELP THAT COULD BE PROVIED WOULD BE THANKED.

[erikem]

Welcome to the forum, but please turn off the caps lock key.

[Northtowne]

Type in Estelle Mining on Google and you will get a report of a hike on the Estelle Mining Trail by Chattanooga Hiking Club. It mentions the "roadbed" and has a picture of a tunnel. Would like to know if you find out any more about the line.

Not the same mining operation, but there is a long "hill" that is at the Al/GA state line just south of Lyerly, GA. The name of the hill is "Dirtsellers Mountain", and was the location of ore mines in the early 1900's. I found out that there was a branch (std gauge) off the old Southern, Gadsden AL to Rome GA line that served the mines. You probably know about this operation, being in Trion, GA.

Welcome to the Forum.

Northtowne

Gadsden, AL

[Northtowne]

Correction, the rail branch to the mines at Dirtsellers Mountain was off the Central of GA at Lyerly, not the Southern.

Northtowne

[tatans]

Any one having trouble reading your forum may have a sight transformation problem, there is no difference in the brain deciphering the letter M or m, there is no mechanism in the brain that indicates a capital letter is a form of "shouting",  just some lumpenprogrammer with nothing to do and to NOT standardize any part of computer "language"  How do people who cannot read capital letters understand signs ? ?   S  T  O  P      SoRry,  OfF  tOpIc

[Anonymous]

Weren't train orders often typed in all upper case?  I suppose it was probably necessary to shout so the engineer could hear the orders above all the racket in the cab.

[N2YYP]

Town of Estell Takked to my Uncle and Dad they told me the the people who built the greave yard tore down the town to build the grave yard. So the Grave yarde is where the town was.

[mudchicken]

Southern Railway went thru Estelle. The mine railroad clearly wasn't a common carrier and does not show up in Prof Hilton's American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Being this was post civil war, go look in the records of the state mining engineer..For that matter, see if anything survives in the Southern's records at Kennesaw.

(is this thread ever ancient!), curious where the ng statement came from.