Pull It Man!

Published on: May 4th, 2012 | Last updated: February 12, 2016 | Written by: GasAxe

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When globetrotting takes me to the corporate HQ in Atlanta, it means a week being stuffed in a 5-star resort without a car. They send a limo to pick us up in the morning and return us in the afternoon. The only excitement is when a meeting ends with somebody getting fired. All-you-can-eat gourmet food helps make our stay to be more bearable, but hey, you have to get out once in a while.

This place was one of Pullman Standard’s repair shops. It’s changed ownership a few times over the years. About the only piece of railroad left here is the transfer table, rails in the cement and a totally bashed and graff’d dining car sitting on jack-stands with the trucks removed.

If that bashed dining car is going to leave, it will be on the back of a truck. Aside from the trucks missing off the car, the rail connection to CSX has been removed and built over.

What this place has become is a major canvas for the Atlanta graff writers and is best described as the Freedom Tunnel of the South.

If you manage to see the movie "The Fast and the Furious 5", watch closely since there were some scenes in the movie that were shot here.

Special thanks to Bennet of SP.E.C.T.R.E. for this one.

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