Published 11:08 am Wednesday, September 9, 2026 In the Thursday, Sept. 3, edition of The Tifton Gazette, we published an article about a railcar at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture. We were contacted by Owen Wright of Relic Pine Enterprises LLC, who described what he said was his role in finding the railcar and identifying it, as well as negotiations for his company to renovate it. We attempted to get comments from the museum, but when we couldn’t, we ran the story anyway. That was a mistake. On Friday morning, we received an email from Allen C. Saylor Jr., ABAC’s assistant vice president for information technology and auxiliary, who identified himself as the administrator responsible for the Georgia Museum of Agriculture. In his email, he contradicted multiple important statements Mr. Wright had given us: — Mr. Wright said the museum had reached out to his firm. Mr. Saylor said Mr. Wright contacted ABAC on June 30. “The college had no prior contact with him or with Relic Pine Enterprises, made no inquiry about a structure, and asked no one to identify anything on the grounds,” Mr. Saylor wrote. — Mr. Wright said the railcar had been “discovered,” but Mr. Saylor said it had already been “a documented object in the museum’s own collection records, cataloged by the museum’s curator as accession GMA26.10. It was not lost, and no outside firm found it.” — Mr. Wright said the museum is in discussion with his firm to revitalize the railcar. Mr. Saylor said that is not true. —…
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