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 On the same road, between its underpass at Virginia Ave and the intersection at Loop Road, there is an abandoned now disconnected exit ramp that once served the entry/exit roads to the terminal. The left hand ramp was demolished when the gas station was built, but the right hand once still remains.
+The S-curve of Woolman Pl just south of Loop Rd follows what was once the exit loop from the terminal, and still has the original concrete pavement. The Renaissance Hotel to the south very roughly marks where the terminal once stood.
+=== Airport Blvd/I-85 ===
+Airport Blvd, which runs NE/SW alongside I-85, roughly follows the original alignment of I-85 (and before that US-29) before the entire freeway was shifted westward when the midfield terminal complex was built.
+==== Morris Army Airfield ====
+[[https://maps.app.goo.gl/TiMseXfV4mozJ6cG9|Morris Army Airfield]] is a former military airfield located on the grounds for Fort Gillem. It was closed along with the base.
+==== Stone Mountain Airport ====
+[[https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B048'41.3%22N+84%C2%B007'08.8%22W/@33.8114754,-84.1216873,665m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d33.811471!4d-84.119107?hl=en&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D|Stone Mountain Airport]] is an abandoned former private airport located just east of Stone Mountain Park. It's now used as an R/C plane base.
 ===== Roads and Freeways =====
+==== Buford-Spring Connector ====
+The Buford-Spring Connector, running north from Spring St to Buford Hwy, is the original alignment of I-85. It was bypassed in the 1980s when the larger viaduct was built alongside it.
 ==== Freedom Parkway/Stone Mountain Freeway ====
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 The [[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stewart+Avenue+Trolley+Line+Substation/@33.7387534,-84.4081525,83m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88f5036d6ca510f1:0xe2f60d43a193cf6e!8m2!3d33.7388835!4d-84.408026!16s%2Fg%2F1tdc61ly?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D|Stewart Ave substation]], is a former still standing electrical substation that served streetcars running on what is now Metropolitan Parkway.
+==== Freight ====
+=== Atlantic Steel ===
+A short stub track, branching just south of Peachtree Station, on a bridge over I-75, and ending just north of Atlantic Station, is one of the last remnants of the old Atlantic Steel mill. It's still used occasionally today by Amtrak as a storage track.