Tallapoosa Depots Tallapoosa's rail stations, now gone, served the Southern Railway, which was constructed in the 1880s as the Georgia Pacific Railway. In the early 1890s the town featured a huge resort hotel and had plans for a streetcar system. Tallapoosa is a town of 3,118 in Haralson County, about 70 miles west of Atlanta. RailGa.com. Georgia's Railroad History & Heritage. © Steve Storey Railroad History | The Depot List | Locomotives On Display | Odds & Ends | Sources & References | Home