Americus The Central of Georgia's 1891 Americus passenger depot (shown in the postcard views above) was located on the north side of downtown, where it stood on the south side of McGarrah Street and the east side of the tracks. The freight depot was about three hundred feet south. The passenger station was demolished in the early 1970s. The 1869 freight depot survived nearly thirty years longer, but it too was eventually torn down, in May 2002. Americus also had a Seaboard Air Line Railway depot. Designed by prominent Atlanta architects Bruce & Morgan, it stood on the south side of downtown, between S. Jackson Street and Forrest Street. It was demolished in 1968. SAL's Americus shops were several blocks to the southeast, along the east side of Elm Street where it meets Dodson Street. A photo of the SAL depot is online at this informative website.   Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. Copyright, Steve Storey. Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home