SMYRNA, Ga. — Sometimes you’re walking into a museum and you hear the bell at the nearby crossing gates. Luckily on this particular day, you have your camera handy to capture a northbound train passing through Smyrna, Georgia, on the Western & Atlantic.
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Todd DeFeo loves to travel anywhere, anytime, taking pictures and notes. An award-winning reporter, Todd revels in the experience and the fact that every place has a story to tell. He is owner of The DeFeo Groupe and also edits Express Telegraph and The Travel Trolley.
ROME, Ga. – The Rome Railroad was founded on Dec. 21, 1839, as the Memphis Branch Railroad and Steamboat Company of Georgia. The line’s 20-mile route between Rome, Ga., and Kingston, Ga., was completed in 1849. The following year, the company changed its name to the Rome Railroad Company. “From Rome, cotton and other commodities were shipped down river on the Coosa to Gadsden, Alabama and other points,” reads a historical marker in Kingston. The route was sold to the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway in 1894, which by that time leased the Western & Atlantic Railroad, which passed
STATHAM, Ga. — A 17-year-old was struck and killed by a CSX freight train, authorities said. Officials said the teen was walking along the train tracks when he was hit by the train. The boy may have been listening to music and was unable to hear the train.