NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Music City is a great place to watch trains.
The bridge along Broadway next to Union Station provides a perfect vantage point of the tracks leading to and from Radnor Yard in downtown Nashville. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad first built the yard, and today, city leaders are exploring whether the yard can be relocated and allow the tracks running through the heart of the city to be used by commuter trains.
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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.
Atlanta currently has one passenger station in use, serving Amtrak’s Crescent train running between New York and New Orleans. But, the city has a long history with passenger stations.
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.