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[ November 13, 2025 ] NJ Transit Board Authorizes $917 Million to Overhaul Multilevel Railcars Commuter Rail
[ November 13, 2025 ] Rail Accident Investigation Branch Probing Shap Derailment After Train Strikes Landslip World
[ November 13, 2025 ] Singleton to Host Second Public Meeting With NJ Transit About the River LINE Commuter Rail
[ November 12, 2025 ] KiwiRail Installs New Level Crossing on Historic Kingston Branch World
[ November 11, 2025 ] National Conference of Firemen and Oilers: Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern Merger Will Protect Jobs Norfolk Southern

Pennsylvania Station: ‘A Monument to the Ingenuity of the Present Day Architects and Engineers’

October 14, 2025 Railfanning.org Digital Library

The famed Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan was noted for its glass dome.

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.

Let’s start by defining what constitutes a railroad oddity

April 14, 2025 Todd DeFeo

I’ve been thinking about what oddities happened on the rails — and how to define oddity. In all the talks that I’ve given, something interesting has emerged.

Remembering the Great Locomotive Chase 163 years later

April 12, 2025 Todd DeFeo

It was a rainy Saturday morning — April 12, 1862 — when a group of suspicious men boarded a northbound Western & Atlantic train at Marietta, Georgia. The men held tickets to varying points along the line, trying to make it seem as though they were not a part of one large group.

Pennsylvania Station: ‘A Monument to the Ingenuity of the Present Day Architects and Engineers’

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

Atlanta’s Lost Rails: Untold Local Railroad History Revealed

Let’s start by defining what constitutes a railroad oddity

Remembering the Great Locomotive Chase 163 years later

A look at the Western & Atlantic built locomotives

People & Places of the Western & Atlantic: The intro remarks never given

Great Locomotive Chase participant Franklin Alexander Crawford later kept history alive at the Cyclorama