Excursion train makes trial run

PLAINS - A locomotive pulling several vintage passenger cars is making a trial run Tuesday through the peanut fields and small towns of southwest Georgia to former President Jimmy Carter&#39;s hometown. <br> <br> The train goes from Cordele to Carter&#39;s boyhood home in Archery, west of Plains. Backers hope it will become a major tourist attraction. <br> <br> Regularly scheduled train rides begin on November first. Stops will include Americus, the Plains depot that was Carter&#39;s 1976 presidential headquarters, his family&#39;s 1940s-era farm in Archery and at Leslie, home to a world-class telephone museum.

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