Georgia

Georgia Ports Container Trade up 8.6% in Fiscal 2025

July 29, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire

The Georgia Ports Authority moved 5.7 million twenty-foot equivalent container units in fiscal 2025, which ended on June 30, representing an 8.6% increase of 450,000 TEUs compared to the previous fiscal year.

Get Ready: Eating and Drinking the Western & Atlantic is Coming!

June 18, 2025 Todd DeFeo

To appreciate the Western & Atlantic is to appreciate the local communities where the rail line runs, delving into the people and the places that made — and make — the line unique.

A graphic of the Rockmart, Georgia, Royal Palm train wreck, including newspaper images.

Dec. 3, 1926: 19 Killed in Rockmart, Georgia, Train Collision

May 6, 2025 The Turntable

A head-on collision between two Southern Railway passenger trains, the Royal Palm and the Ponce de Leon, near Rockmart, Georgia, on Dec. 3, 1926.

A view of the Kennesaw, Georgia, train depot.

A Look Back: Engineer Killed in 1923 Kennesaw Derailment

April 7, 2025 The Turntable

Shortly before Christmas in 1923, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway’s southbound Dixie Limited passenger train derailed after passing the station in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Brunswick Now the Nation’s Top Port for Autos, Heavy Equipment

February 14, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire

Colonel’s Island Terminal is now the nation’s busiest port for autos and heavy equipment, handling more than 2 million tons of Roll-on/Roll-off cargo in 2024.

Georgia Railroad Lauds Ruling Upholding Right to Use Eminent Domain to Take Land for Spur

February 6, 2025 Railfanning.org News Wire

A Georgia short line railroad has lauded a Fulton County Superior Court judge’s ruling upholding a Georgia Public Service Commission ruling granting the railroad company the power to take land from several property owners in Sparta, Georgia, for a spur.

Georgia Ports Container Trade up 8.6% in Fiscal 2025

Get Ready: Eating and Drinking the Western & Atlantic is Coming!

Dec. 3, 1926: 19 Killed in Rockmart, Georgia, Train Collision

A Look Back: Engineer Killed in 1923 Kennesaw Derailment

Brunswick Now the Nation’s Top Port for Autos, Heavy Equipment

Georgia Railroad Lauds Ruling Upholding Right to Use Eminent Domain to Take Land for Spur

Georgia Ports: Port of Savannah, Port of Brunswick See Significant Growth

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

Fulton County Judge to Hear Arguments in Sandersville Railroad Eminent Domain Case

People & Places of the Western & Atlantic Railroad: ‘Uncle Joe’ Renard