Articles by Todd DeFeo

About Todd DeFeo

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.

NS Through Secaucus Junction

October 24, 2025 Todd DeFeo

A Norfolk Southern freight passes through Secaucus Junction in New Jersey on October 17, 2025.

VIDEO: CSX runs special train honoring Medal of Honor recipients

October 4, 2025 Todd DeFeo

About 20 Medal of Honor recipients boarded a special passenger train in downtown Kennesaw on Sept. 30 and headed north along a historic rail line that was the scene of one of the Civil War’s most daring exploits.

Special Train Retraces the Route of the Great Locomotive Chase

October 1, 2025 Todd DeFeo

What’s it like to ride through the modern Western & Atlantic tunnel?

October 1, 2025 Todd DeFeo

I filmed a quick video reflecting on passing through the 1928 tunnel on the Western & Atlantic Railroad during the “first-ever immersive reenactment of the Great Locomotive Chase” from Kennesaw, Georgia, to Ringgold, Georgia.

Running through the ‘new’ tunnel in Tunnel Hill, Georgia

September 30, 2025 Todd DeFeo

Read more This article was published by Tales from the Rails and is republished here with permission. Click here to view the original.

Atlanta’s Lost Rails: Untold Local Railroad History Revealed

July 18, 2025 Todd DeFeo

I’m speaking at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 19, at Donaldson-Bannister Farm in Dunwoody, Georgia.

Take the A-Train from Denton

May 21, 2025 Todd DeFeo

The 21-mile-long A-train opened on June 20, 2011, operating on a former Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad right-of-way.