Nicest 1980 C3 Corvette in the world?
This fully restored 1980 C3 Corvette is on display at the Miles Through Time Automotive Museum in Toccoa, GA. Visit to see the car in person.
1958 Ford Thunderbird For Sale
Beautiful example of a 1958 Ford Thunderbird on consignment with a 352 cid V8 engine, 2 speed automatic transmission, standard drum brakes. Kelsey Hayes wire wheels and barely used Coker wide white tires with matching wide white spare tire. Rear fender skirts come with the car. Current owner has owned the car for 9 years and only put 2,000 miles on the car. The car is all original with the exception of a paint job that was completed more than 10 years ago. See this classic at the Miles Through Time Automotive Museum in Toccoa, Ga. Email info@milesthroughtime.com or call 706-886-0721 for more information.
1956 Jaguar XK 140 For Sale
This Jaguar XK140 Drop Head Coupe is beautiful and believed to be only 1 of 4 rare automatics to make it to the United States. The car was restored years ago and has been kept indoors. The car has been completely detailed inside and out and is currently on display in the Miles Through Time Automotive Museum. The car comes with a Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust, production record trust certificate No. 15538.
The car runs and drives well. The white paint is in decent shape and presents well. The red interior is very clean and the black convertible top is in great shape. This car is currently listed on consignment by the widow of the previous owner. See more at
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Brush Motor Car Company (1907-1909), later the Brush Runabout Company (1909-1913), was based in Highland Park, Michigan. The company was founded by Alanson Partridge Brush (February 10, 1878 in Michigan – March 6, 1952 in Michigan), who designed a light car with a wooden chassis (actually, wooden rails and iron cross-members), friction drive transmission and underslung coil springs in tension instead of compression on both sides of each axle. Although there were many makes of small runabouts of similar size and one to four cylinders at this time (before the Model T Ford dominated the low-price market), the Brush has many unusual design details showing the inventiveness of its creator. Power was provided by a large single-cylinder water-cooled engine. Two gas-powered headlamps provided light, along with a gas-powered light in the rear. The frame, axles, and wheels were made of oak, hickory or maple, and were either left plain or painted to match the trim. The horn was located next to the engine cover, with a metal tube running to a squeeze bulb affixed near the driver. A small storage area was provided in the rear, with a drawer accessible under the rear of the seat.
A feature of engines designed by Brush (who also designed the first Oakland Motor Car, ancestor of Pontiac and who helped design the original one-cylinder Cadillac engine) was that they ran counter-clockwise instead of the usual clockwise, which, in those days before the invention of the electric starter, was Brush's idea intended to make them safer for a right-handed person to crank-start by hand. With clockwise-running engines, many injuries were sustained, most often dislocated thumbs and broken forearms, if the hand crank kicked back on starting, especially if the car was not properly adjusted before starting, or the person cranking it did not follow correct safety procedures, including fully retarding the manual spark advance, keeping the thumb alongside the fingers instead of around the crank, and pulling the crank upward in a half turn, never in a full circle or pushing down.
In 1912, Sid Ferguson drove a Brush Runabout with Birtles as navigator, becoming the first persons to drive across the Australian continent from west to east.
The Brush Runabout Company, along with Maxwell-Briscoe, Stoddard-Dayton, and others formed Benjamin Briscoe's United States Motor Company from 1910, ending when that company failed in 1913. Runabouts, in general, fell out of vogue quickly, partly due to the lack of protection from the weather.
A restored 1909 Brush Runabout is on display at the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville, Oregon, with another under restoration at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome for the New York State aviation museum's automotive collection. An original 1910 Brush is on display at the Swigart Antique Auto Museum, Rt. 22-Old William Penn Highway, located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
There is also a restored 1911 Brush on display at the Miles Through Time Automotive Museum in Toccoa, GA. The car is a part of a private collection that was previously stored in a basement. Now the car is on display and sits next to a 1910 Sears and a 1948 Chevy among others.
Toccoa, GA 8/24/13: The Greatness of AC Traction
AC power has always impressed me, and hearing stories from engineers, I have more reason to be impressed. We will see the greatness of AC power demonstrated in two regards here: one showing where it should be used to save a struggling intermodal, and one to show the fun a railfan gets watching them go by.
For the first case, we see southbound train 221 slogging up the 17-mile, 1.0% grade from the state line to Mt. Airy, GA behind two direct current GE D9-40CWs. The already two-hour-late train is barely making 15 miles per hour and is losing speed rapidly with 10 more miles to go. It's a miracle they didn't stall out. AC power would have clearly helped here...
After 221, we see the railfan's fun of AC power, as a set of three NS SD70ACes, numbered 1018, 1002, and 1016, leads northbound manifest 154 through downtown Toccoa. Tons of horn echoed through the valley, and dynamics whined as the three big engines easily held back the weight of the manifest. I'm sure 221's crew wouldn't have minded three big ACes up front!
BGCM Pulling Storage hoppers off CSP 2nd Sub
Any movement on the former Camas Prairie Railroad 2nd sub is rare mileage now. Here one of BGCM's GP30's pulls a string of coal hoppers out of storage. I was driving my kids to our spring break trip when I saw this, and they came and watched it with me.
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Hiwassee Loop Excursion L&N CSX Tennessee Fall Colors
This video shows most of the excursion operated between Copperhill, TN and Hiwassee State Park near Etowah, TN.
This line was originally L&N, and later CSX. The highlight of the trip is travelling the famous Hiwassee Loop where the railroad crosses over itself while making almost two complete circles to handle the change in elevation.
This video starts after leaving the town of Copperhill, on the Tennessee / Georgia state line, and runs for about two hours. In addition to seeing the loop, the railroad also passes the Apalachia Dam (operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority); the power house, next to the railroad, is over eight miles down stream. Much of the railroad is next to the Hiwassee River, but leaving Copperhill the railroad spends several miles next to the Ocoee River.
The passenger equipment on this trip was three coaches and one dome/observation car. The video was shot from the rear vestibule of the rear car on the return trip (and you may hear passengers talking from time to time). The locomotive was GMTX 2004, a GP38 leased from GATX.
Copperhill was once the location of extensive copper mining. When the mine was closed the line faced abandonment by CSX, but the line remains open because of the tailings from the mine. When copper is mined iron is often also present, but usually in quantities that were once uneconomical to recover. Thanks to new processes the mine tailings are now valuable as iron ore and are being hauled out. During the video you will see a string of loaded gondola ore cars stored on a siding.
Passengers are bused from the Etowah Depot to the train in Hiwassee State Park.
This trip is all in Tennessee, but the Georgia state line is at Copperhill, and Hiwassee Loop is only a few hundred feet from the North Carolina state line. The dam is in North Carolina.
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Georgia Road Trip: From Jekyll Island to the North Georgia Mountains
From the creepy dead trees of Driftwood Beach in Jekyll Island to the wineries and orchards of the North Georgia Mountains.
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Georgia Sidecar Club Middle Friday Campout Ride - October 2014
6 Sidecars Rigs! 3 Hondas, 2 Triumphs and a Ural, 8 humans, 5 dogs. Ride took all day, condensed down to 17 minutes. We go through Jackson, Monticello, Flovilla and Eatonton Ga seeing the famous Bear-o-lax sign and the Braer Rabbit Museum.
Athens, Georgia
Athens (formally known as Athens-Clarke County) is a consolidated city–county in the U.S. state of Georgia, in the northeastern part of the state, comprising the former city of Athens proper (the county seat) and Clarke County. The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public research university, is located in this college town, and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original city abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to collectively as Athens-Clarke County. As of the 2010 census, the consolidated city-county (including all of Athens-Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) had a total population of 115,452; all of Clarke County had a population of 116,714. Athens is the fifth largest city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens-Clarke County, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 192,541 as of the 2010 census. Athens-Clarke County has the smallest geographical area of a county in Georgia.
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Harry Dixon, Reflections on Georgia Politics
ROGP 093. Harry Dixon interviewed by Bob Short, December 1, 2009.
Harry Donival Dixon entered U.S. Maritime Service and served in World War II in 1943. In 1963, he was elected as a Democrat to the Georgia House of Representatives. He served as chairman of the Regulated Beverages committee for 27 years, and rewrote many of Georgia's liquor laws. Dixon served on the State Board of Transportation. He served in the Georgia House for 38 years. Dixon discusses his service in the war, several campaign experiences, and his time in the legislature.
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