Substack

We are between two major holiday travel periods, and when we think of travel today, we often think of chaos.

Despite numerous safety upgrades throughout history, railroading has always been a dangerous profession, and it still is today.

I’ve been working my way across Georgia, trying to define what makes a railroad town.

In speaking about railroad history, I often talk about communities’ love-hate relationship with railroads.

We live in a crazy world, and we’re always looking forward, it seems. I like to take the opportunity to ponder the past for a moment — to understand the events of the past that led us to the world we know today.