Lindale Rail Viewing Platform ribbon cutting set for Saturday at noon
The Floyd County Commission announced Tuesday a ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Lindale Rail Viewing Platform at the intersection of Old Rockmart Road and Park Avenue in Lindale.
The ribbon cutting will be held at noon on Saturday and the event is open to the public. Everyone in attendance is asked to practice social distancing; keeping at least six feet between each person who does not reside in the same household. It is recommended that those in attendance wear a mask.
Plans for the viewing platform date to 2017, when Public Works Director Michael Skeen and Special Projects Director Bruce Ivey started investigating the concept.
The small Southwest Georgia community of Folkston gets about 60 trains a day. They built a covered viewing platform in 2001, including a scanner so visitors could
Shirl Willis shares this photo of her son Jeff Gribble, who is from Alpharetta, checking out the new train viewing platform in Lindale. (This file photo was originally printed in December 2019.) listen to the engineers, and and expertise to the project: it’s now a destination for Joe Silva, Lindale Mill, Evans hobbyists — railfans — who Construction, Restoration track and photograph trains Lindale, Huether Custom running across the country. Ornamental Iron, Warden The city also hosts an annual Michael Long and the Floyd train festival. County Prison, Floyd County
The ribbon cutting announcement Public Works, Floyd County notes that a Facilities Management, and number of local residents and the Georgia’s Rome Office businesses contributed time of Tourism.