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Welcome to MilkaWay Photography. Named after Milka, my determined bulldog, and dedicated to my parents who passed on to me their passion for travel and photography, MilkaWay Photography specializes in images from America mainly, the South especially and Georgia in particular. It is not my intention to glorify nor mock the South, but rather to capture any and all aspects of it, from the grand to the destitute, and the historically significant to the whimsical.

While I will upload photos regularly, the SmugMug collection shows only a fraction of my work. If you are looking for a particular image, please feel free to e-mail me at milkaway.photography@yahoo.com, and I will gladly add it or try to get it for you.

Thank you for visiting!

Dagmar Nelson

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Railroads And Their Towns : Georgia's railroad history began in the early 1830s with the construction of the Georgia Railroad between Augusta and Athens and the Monroe Railroad between Macon and Forsyth, and the establishment of the Georgia Railroad Company in 1833. By 1850 Georgia had the most rail miles of any southern state, and Atlanta had become a rail hub for the entire South, thus making it a key military target during the Civil War. After the war, the Georgia railroad system continued to expand until the 1920s when it started to decline due to the coming of the automobile. In the process, many of the small towns that had sprung up along the railroad lines started to decline as well, and their depots were torn down, moved, used for other purposes or simply left to decay. Sometimes I come across a small town that has an old depot, but no longer any railroad tracks. 80 years and several railroad mergers later, the Georgia rail system has stabilized and is a strong, 5,000-mile network served by the Norfolk Southern and CSX.

Railroads And Their Towns

Georgia's railroad history began in the early 1830s with the construct ...

Updated: May 10, 2008 1:33pm PST

Gallery Categories

My America

5 galleries with 182 photos

Updated: May 10, 2008 1:32pm PST

Photography

7 galleries with 349 photos

Updated: May 10, 2008 1:44pm PST

My South

9 galleries with 512 photos

Updated: May 10, 2008 1:44pm PST

Georgia Towns & Cities

10 galleries with 333 photos

Updated: May 10, 2008 1:32pm PST

Agriculture

3 galleries with 122 photos

Updated: Apr 27, 2008 12:13pm PST

Animals

4 galleries with 98 photos

Updated: May 03, 2008 8:52am PST