Hair Diamond

Name	Type	Comments	Date

steven langsford	General	NICE PHOTO!!! ANY REASOM WHY ITS CALLED THE HAIR DIAMOND?	5/12/2006 2:24:15 PM

Jerry Conaway	General	I have searched and searched for the origins of the name "Hair" but so far i've found nothing on it. It is shown on a green sing and post on the south side of the crossing next to the Norfolk Southern tracks. As far as diamond, that is the shape of the crossing. It's at a very acute angle. Interstingly enough, according to Shadowlands.Net, this area is haunted. Supposedly, a Cherokee indian chief named Red Bird was killed in a horse racing accident here (before the railroad and town), and his body is buried somewhere under the tracks. Still doesn't explain the name.	5/12/2006 9:37:27 PM

Jerry Conaway	General	TYPO! Thats "sign" not "sing"	5/12/2006 9:38:12 PM

Freightcar "1"	General	Long before synthetic fibres, hair was a common component of carpet.	5/16/2006 9:41:23 PM

Jerry Conaway	General	Ewww! Real hair carpet! Well, if you have a cat, it still is a component of carpet! Thanks for the updated info!	5/17/2006 7:20:15 AM

Robert Duncan Sr.	General	No, no, no! It has nothing to do with carpet. I have heard there was an employee of the ETV&G (originally Savannah, Rome & Dalton RR) in the olden days with the last name of Hair. There are still some surviving family of Hair's in the Dalton area. I'm sure they've heard all the jokes too. The W&A originally crossed the SR&D about 3 blocks North of this diamond. My guess is when it was moved to it's current location, it was named for the prominent employee. This was all told to me by the Grandaughter of one of the Chief Station agents in early Southern days. BTW, I've been hanging out there for about 5 years and never saw a ghost.	12/5/2006 9:59:40 PM

- -	General	NS refers to the jct. as "Hair Junction", CSX just refers to it as "Dalton". Same place different names. You will notice (well, not in this shot) the sign "Hair" is on NS's tracks.	12/31/2006 9:33:04 PM

- -	General	BTW, I've never seen a ghost there either!	12/31/2006 9:33:46 PM

Jon Searles	General	In any case, it is a great shot.	6/5/2007 5:30:23 AM

David Stewart	General	Southern Railway has always had aknack for naming control points after employees who had some kind of impact in the local areas. NS seems to carry on that tradition in the southern portion of the system.	4/10/2008 9:45:10 AM

Jerry Conaway	General	NS does carry on that tradition. A new passing siding opened on the NS about two months ago. Instead of naming it for the geographic location, they named the north end of the siding "Talley", and the south end "Hall". I don't know who these people were, but i'm planning on doing a bit of research to see if I can find out.	4/10/2008 2:58:11 PM

Allen Jenkins	General	Wasn't the original layout a single track divergence in north & south to a single mainline maintained by both roads?	10/26/2008 5:03:24 AM

steven langsford	General	Very nice photo!!!	3/19/2009 4:55:40 PM

Geddy Davis	General	That's Awesome, good shot!	4/12/2010 5:56:08 PM

Jim Ford	General	Great shot, back on the homepage	8/21/2013 8:39:36 PM

Mike Maskel	General	GREAT SHOT	4/4/2014 1:52:55 PM

David Nutter	General	Seen this been covered on front RP homepage today! Great shot!	8/21/2014 3:10:38 AM

Hair Diamond
A CSX empty Auto-Rack train about to cross Hair Diamond.
Date: 4/24/2006	Location: Dalton, GA Map	Views: 3981	Collection Of: Jerry Conaway
Locomotives: CSX 8072(SD40-2)			Author: Jerry Conaway

Picture Categories: Action		This picture is part of album: CSX's Western & Atlantic Subdivision

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