The Silver Comet Trail is a rail trail in west-northwestern Georgia, United States.
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Image: Silver Comet Trail in Nathan Dean Park, October 2016
The trail at the 2.4-mile mark, near Heritage Park in Mableton, Georgia
The Silver Comet was a streamlined passenger train inaugurated on May 18, 1947, by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Before its inaugural run, the new train was christened by actress Jean Parker at Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The train succeeded the SAL's Cotton States Special, which took the same route and which like the Silver Comet left the northeast at midday and arrived at Birmingham in the late morning.
The Silver Comet reversing into Atlanta Terminal Station in Atlanta in November 1967