The end of the year is a great opportunity to look back at some favorite pictures of the year. One thought about favorite pictures: They don’t always mean the best pictures I snapped — just the ones that bring me back to a time and place I enjoyed.
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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.
For this second episode of “People and Places of the Western & Atlantic Railroad,” we’re in historic Dalton, Georgia. Today, we focus on the railroad and its role shaping this North Georgia city.
America’s North Coast, or the 216, if you prefer, may be best known as the birthplace — or home — of Rock & Roll, but it’s not a bad place to watch trains.
By all accounts, August 6, 1860, started as a typical Monday. But, by the time Benjamin Bartle eased the locomotive W. B. Munford onto the bridge crossing the Cumberland River in Clarksville, Tennessee, he was entering the annals of history. His train was the first to cross the bridge, a major hurdle in building a vital portion of the rail line linking Memphis and Louisville.