Hot Shot

CSX Transportation’s Chicago & Eastern Illinois pulled a northbound freight through Smyrna, Georgia, on the evening of Friday, Jan. 30, shortly after the city unveiled its new Jonquil statue downtown.

The CSX executive train pulls into Kennesaw, Georgia, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025.

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