I agree 💯💯💯💯

The only thing is Democrats are the party of Slavery, KKK, Jim Crow segregation law's, and Margaret SANGER helped to put Abortion clinics in Black neighborhoods,to murder innocent babies! Millions of minorities murdered by abortion clinics n All of these evil people are Democrats! You need to actually study real History for yourself! Abe Lincoln was a Republican, he stopped Slavery!!!! Because we are all Created equal by the same GOD! All blue ran state's are ran by DEMOCRATS and they keep AMERICAN'S poor, on WELFARE! So many homeless, and poor kept that way on purpose,when you take self worth away from people, they have ZERO SELF-ESTEEM, and they have no reason to accomplish anything in life, taking SUCCESS AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE! And the left doesn't support the CONSTITUTION, they want all of our FREEDOM'S!

Jeffrey, thanks for the shared memories, that was fascinating! I'm very sorry the LEV2 didn't come to fruition, it would have been very cool. I remember in the 1980's when the train stopped coming through Waverly Hall, it was a sad time as I love trains. The track is a walking/jogging trail now, sad

Down The Road with Brian Mallard - thanks for your response & indeed your fellow commenters. I’m pleased to hear about your own channel and that you’ll still be very much a part of SSA. Yes, the LEV2 Railbus project was very exciting over too short a period, both for me and the project. Shorter still for experimental high-speed 4-wheel/2-axle rail vehicles as a means of bringing more sustainable railways from the 19th into the 21st century. Had these types of vehicles been able to enjoy continuous development, many of the communities you described suffering in your post might be in a lot better shape today thro’ preservation of a more contemporary & sustainable rail service for goods and people.

Hey Gary Daniel! Thanks for taking the time to read my essay... Love your comments; very evocative and goes well with my vivid imagination! I’ll comment further after checking the places you mention, but in the meantime:- LEV2 Railbus was a neat project & I just happened to be in the right place (Railcar Production Mgr @ D Wickham & Co, Ware, 🇬🇧) at the right time (Jimmy Carter’s second term campaign) & had the most exciting 12 months of my whole career (so far...!) from Feb ‘80 to Feb ‘81. I love trains too, and talking of Amtrak, LEV2 was due to be towed by Amtrak from Virginia Newport News US Navy docks to Lowell, Mass. Boston & Maine workshop where LEV2 would the be unpacked & commissioned before trials & entering service. Except no-one considered how to get LEV2 from the rail line on the quay to the mainline station 5 miles across town to start the 1,000+ mile Amtrak tow... The problem was no locomotive could negotiate the No. 7 curves inside the docks & even LEV2, as a 2-axle/4-wheel was only designed for No. 5 curve. Even tho’ as Project Mgr who’d cheekily appointed myself Commissioning Engineer because of all the support I’d have from BRRD, BLSV & B&M engineers waiting for LEV2 & me in Boston, it was me that realised that the only way we were going to be able to get LEV2 out of the docks (and ‘save’ Jimmy Carter in the New England primaries...?!) was to commission LEV2 there on the quay and drive it across town... I’ll always remember me turning to the Commander of the base who’d got involved in this crisis by then, and me expressing my doubts and him saying back to me with a smile “...you’re forgetin’ - this is the US Navy, Jeff!” And so it turned out to be and a lot of fun & drama we all had in achieving that! When we didn’t think it was possible after that, driving LEV2 off the quay & across town was even more exciting and thrilling... The worse No.7 curves came first, tearing up (literally!) the inner flanges of the very old tracks & the flanges of the new wheels and over-heating the brand-new engine after having to push so hard thro’ the curves. When we got an airlock in the cooling system, it was me that got everyone to stand back and me go under the Railbus and do what up to then I’d only observed at a distance(!)... Nobody, NOBODY until today knew of the risk I took of scalding myself to death under that chassis frame, just to keep Jimmy Carter’s election prospects alive - LoL! LEV2 really shone thro’, however in not de-railing once and demonstrated just how radical, advanced and successful the 2-axle high-speed suspension design was. I can you, after this all-day effort to commission and negotiate the No 7 curves, we were almost hysterical with relief and that was before the fun of driving across town from the navy docks to the mailine station serving the northeast coast line. I’d never experienced anything like it before or since. The vehicle was still in all it’s trans-Atlantic export wrapping like a huge moving brown parcel with the barely noticeable front screen & 1st only of 12 window bays unwrapped. Having not been used for decades, all the road crossings in town from the docks to the station were closed by police cars & motorcycles! Like the base Commander, I’ll ever forget the sight as I sat in the cab driving LEV2 slowly for this 5 miles, of one of the FRA Administrators hanging out of the front entrance door right next to me whooping and hollering at all the open-mouthed onlookers of this strangest of apparitions... That’s more than enough! It’s been a long time since I had the opportunity to remember all this, although I only have to hear the name Jimmy Carter...

Gary Daniel - I know, I should write my memoirs... I haven’t googled your locations yet! Jeff

I just came across this channel and reading some comments...came across yours.....very interesting and side note...I had a brown 79 firebird, wish I still had it 🤗. Unfortunately it wasn't a V8. I'd love to take one of those scenic trains through northern mountains but unfortunately can't afford much travel, especially from Georgia. Thanks for story....guess I can dream 😁

Thank you! Part Two is in production now as well as some other cool adventures

Thanks! Gotta give all the credit to Brian on this one! He did a good job.

Thank you Kevin! Doing great and having a blast shooting these shows, thanks for watching!

Mark Cooper never even knew about red mud till a while ago

My too

Thank you Bill, our pleasure!

True

Thank you James! A lot of neat stuff around the area

Thanks and Brian’s got his own channel, called Down the Road with Brian Mallard. Be sure to subscribe to it! This was his pilot episode kinda!

Hi Peter! Yes, GA is full of history and beautiful scenery! I'm just getting started myself in both travel and Shooting. Robert collects bottles as well, it's pretty neat finding one from way back.

Amazing

@@DTRBrianMallard Yes Georgia is full of history l am glad l was born and raised in Georgia l still live in Georgia

Thank you!!

Make sure to sub to his channel.... Down The Road with Brian Mallard

Thank you Leslie!

Awesome... Brian has a part two to the Plains video that is on his channel, if you haven’t seen it. Our family is from Plains/Sumter Co. I love it out there. We’ll be back out that way soon.

I don’t think they do, at least not full cans.

@@AdventuresIntoHistory I hear ya 😁. Kinda loose some over decades.

I believe Brian has been to the Agrirama and that’s an upcoming vid on his channel, Down the Road with Brian Mallard...

LOL! Right!? I've done that before and it's pretty tasty! Stacey love a Georgia Cocktail, as I believe they are called?

@@DTRBrianMallard Mom smiled and giggled and said she's never heard that term. Keep the mini discoveries coming!

I loved the fizz that came as putting in peanuts, but bought glass bottled coke not too long ago and just doesn't fizz like it used to 😥

They did knew to do that peanut and coke

You ever check the Fondation legal papers? Hahahaha. I guess it was fine with you that Governor Carter over sprayed Georgia with toxic fire ant spray. It didn't work. I interned under the crook Governor Carter '74. Peanut farmer, Hahahaha, more like having blacks out in the fields and Carter was buying peanuts from the farmers. I'm a drafted disabled Republic of Vietnam combat veteran '68. Carter pardoned all the draft dodgers then resigned into law the Selective Service System so all young men could be drafted. Habitat for Humanity, the commune all about housing. Read the Atlanta Constitution where Carter had single family homes destroyed to build his library. Yup, Carter's take on housing.

@@fastsetinthewest I'm not your therapist, your mother nor your Psychologist. Take this whinng diatribe of garbage somewhere else.

Thank you William, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yes feeling much better and hoping to film quite a few places around this area. Thanks for watching!

@@DTRBrianMallard as I said, new to channel...have you explored around Stone Mountain Park?

@@bethshadid2087 Hi Beth! I have actually and have some video that I considered making a show out of, but I used a gopro with a smudge lens, so I'll most likely need to reshoot it. Stone Mountain is a fantastic place with its barren rock surfaces as well as wooded areas. It's a wonderful place!

@@DTRBrianMallard Oh it is awesome...so many changes but still great place to explore. Been going there all my life and still find something new and I'm 51 😁. Hope you go when they have laser show in summer.

@@bethshadid2087 Oh! I might just do that! Make for some great footage!

Most welcome! Looking forward to it!

There is so much to see here, especially the small towns and natural places

Oh we did... it's the best.

Oh that is cool! One of the things I try to imagine in these places is what transpired in previous generations, and that is a wonderful image

Wow

@@AdventuresIntoHistory its on the corner of coney rd and ferry landing rd in cordele not far from the flint river at one time some of crisp county was once sumter county i can't figure out how to send pics but i got a few from Google of the old water tower and the house

Email them to me.... SidestepAdventures@gmail.com

Yeah, nice guy and all but leading a world super power was not in his skill set.