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.
July 28, 2022, marks 153 years since the devastating Budds Creek railroad disaster in Montgomery County, Tennessee, along the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad.
For this first episode of “People and Places of the Western & Atlantic Railroad,” we’re in the historic Smyrna Memorial Cemetery in Smyrna, Georgia, not far from the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
