Athens’ Lost Railroad: A Hidden History Under the Stadium

The Butetown branch line is a roughly one-mile-long rail line in the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

Railroads transformed travel and commerce, shrinking a 20-hour stagecoach journey into a quick train ride. The impact? Goods moved faster, markets expanded, and distances vanished. An economic boom followed as the world became a smaller place.

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad’s Chicago-to-Miami Dixieland Flyer passenger train approached the junction at Guthrie at about 4:30 or 4:45 p.m. on June 29, 1957, as a westbound 29-car freight train, No. 121, heading toward Memphis and pulled by two locomotives, approached the at-level crossing.