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--- atlanta:forgotten [2025/01/07 19:53] – khorvath
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 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 ====
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 ===== 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.