CSX reopening Hulsey Yard this month

Courtney Brooks has been named the first Curator-in-Residence for Art on the Atlanta BeltLine. Her public art installation “Journey of a Black Girl” has been installed on the Southside Trail.

By Collin Kelley

CSX will reactivate Hulsey Yard terminal this month, but not as a busy intermodal facility. The 70-acre site will now be used as a TRANSFLO facility for the offloading of goods and materials from railcars to trucks and vice-versa.

Rather than the constant stream of 18-wheelers up and down Boulevard from I-20, CSX officials said there would only be 20 to 25 per day and work at Husley Yard would take place weekdays between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Located along DeKalb Avenue, Hulsey Yard was shuttered last spring when CSX moved operations to its Fairburn depot. Neighborhoods that touch Hulsey Yard – Old Fourth Ward,

Cabbagetown, Inman Park and Reynoldstown – worked to create a mixed-use community master plan for the train yard expecting CSX to sell the property.

CSX told Curbed Atlanta that it still has no plans to sell Hulsey Yard, despite the fact that the Atlanta City Council floated an ordinance at its Feb. 17 meeting to encourage CSX to “consider the future needs of the City of Atlanta, the Atlanta BeltLine, and the surrounding community as they begin the process for the sale of Hulsey Yard.”

The reactivation of Hulsey Yard put a simmering internet rumor to rest after it began circulating on neighborhood message boards that Amtrak was negotiating to buy the yard as a terminal for its proposed commuter line from Nashville to Atlanta.