Georgia

Franklin Alexander “Van” Crawford is one of the lesser-known participants in the Great Locomotive Chase, even if his role was minor.

A Fulton County Superior Court judge is set to hear oral arguments in a case challenging a private railroad company’s attempt to use the state’s eminent domain power to take private land from several owners in rural Hancock County.

Joseph F. “Uncle Joe” Renard was a “pioneer engineer” on the Western & Atlantic, and when he died in 1905 at 68 years old, he was said to be among the best-known railroad men in the state.