Atlanta Train

The spirit of the south still lives aboard the old lazy locomotive, barreling through the countryside with the grace and dignity of a pack of metal elephants on their way to find a few stalks of sweet grass to chew upon and a gallon or two of summer rain still lingering between moss covered rocks down the hill in the valley below. Atlanta is the capitol of the state of Georgia, United States. It is considered to be a top business city and is a primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States—via highway, railroad, and air. Metro Atlanta contains the world headquarters of corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, Delta Air Lines, and Turner Broadcasting. Atlanta has the country's fourth-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies have business operations in the metropolitan area. Prior to the arrival of European Americans in north Georgia, Creek and Cherokee Indians inhabited the area. A Creek village located along the Chattahoochee River, known as "Standing Pitch Tree" or "Pokanaweethly" among multiple derivatives, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the systematic removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area that is now Metro Atlanta in 1821. White settlers arrived in 1822, and nearby Decatur was founded the following year. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western and Atlantic Railroad in order to provide a link between the port of Savannah and the Midwest. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=119122