On Friday evening, April 30, 1971, the storied era of passenger train service ended for Marietta and the rest of West Georgia. At approximately 5:51 pm, Louisville and Nashville (L&N) train number four pulled out of the deserted Marietta passenger and freight station. The locomotive and a few passenger cars headed north toward Chattanooga and Nashville, TN, then on to Evansville, IN, and St. Louis, MO, never to return.
Northbound No. 4 was Marietta’s last passenger train.…