Published 5:55 pm Wednesday, September 2, 2026 TIFTON — The Georgia Museum of Agriculture is considering the renovation of a recently discovered artifact into a brand new exhibit for the facility. The local museum is now in discussion with architecture firm Relic Pine Enterprises to revitalize a wooden railcar dating back to the late 1800s and found overgrown on the museum grounds a few months prior, transforming it into an attraction honoring its history and connections to Tifton’s development. Owen Wright, founder of Relic Pine, reported that the GMA reached out to his firm inquiring about an unknown structure near ABAC Lake and asking them to identify it. The ensuing inspection revealed the railcar ran on the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway — one of the two earliest railroads to run through Tifton and a key factor in the city’s growth — around the 1880s. Wright’s assessment also established that an individual later converted the railcar into a shed for use on their farm, after which they donated it to the GMA — then called the Agrirama — in the 1970s. Though the project currently faces a number of challenges given the railcar’s age and exposure to the elements, the architect felt optimistic that it would become an extremely popular attraction following its restoration. “To restore [the railcar] back to its original condition — putting it back up on the railroad trucks, the carriages that carried it up and down the tracks — would make it one of the rarest forms of…
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