Well, a couple of folks got close to our mystery location in the February 2013 Pennyrail. The “exact” location, is Emerson, Georgia, on the former Western & Atlantic mainline, just South of Cartersville, Georgia.  What you don’t see in this photo is the long steel and concrete bridge which now carries the main and siding over interstate 75.  If those B units are NC& StL, I’d guess this shot taken before or right after the NC&StL/L&N merger of 1957.  The NC&StL reached Atlanta via the state-owned W&A.  This segment is also where the Great Locomotive chase (The General and The Texas) occurred during the Civil War.   The chase began just a few miles south of this point, in Kennesaw (Big Shanty), Georgia.  As for the kudzu, most of us from the deep south have learned to live with the invasive vine.  It does produce lovely purple blooms, but it can take over a few acres in a short period of time.