Based on my remarks to the Bartow History Center on Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Despite numerous safety upgrades throughout history, railroading has always been a dangerous profession, and it still is today. That was quite apparent on July 20, 1940, when a northbound Louisville & Nashville freight train collided with a switch engine near Cartersville, Georgia.
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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.
On a warm June night in 1918, the sleepy community of Ivanhoe, Indiana, was the backdrop of one of the deadliest railroad disasters in the county’s history: The Hammond circus train wreck.
June 23, 1900, was a rainy evening, as Southern Railway locomotive number 7, with a few coaches and a Pullman sleeper car in tow, journeyed from Macon, Georgia, to Atlanta.
