Armour Yard

Armour Yard is a railyard on the northwest side of Interstate 85 between the Piedmont Road and Monroe Drive exits in northeast Atlanta, Georgia, south of the Lindbergh neighborhood of Buckhead. For southbound travelers, it can be easily seen below from the freeway viaduct, and looking underneath the massive viaduct from "old 85".
In 1900 a Belt Junction station is mentioned, which would later be renamed Armour Station. Today there is a Norfolk Southern railyard for freight trains, and since 2005 also a maintenance facility for Metropolitan Atlanta [Rapid Transit Authority|MARTA], Atlanta's metropolitan rail system, whose Red/Gold line passes through the yard. Various public transportation plans suggest building a station at Armour Yard, because it would serve to connect numerous routes which otherwise would not connect in one place:

Amtrak line from Atlanta to Washington D.C.
2 potential commuter rail lines from Atlanta to points northeast such as Athens and Gainesville
potential light rail lines:
*from Lindbergh station, via Armour south-southeast along the BeltLine to Virginia Highland, then west to Midtown along Ponce de Leon Avenue
*from Lindbergh via Armour along the Clifton Corridor to Emory University and possibly through to [Avondale (MARTA station)|Avondale MARTA station]

The origin of the Armour Yard name may be a role as a yard for the railcars of the Armour Car Lines in the early 1900s, an offshoot of Armour and Company's role as one of America's biggest shippers.