About 20 Medal of Honor recipients boarded a special passenger train in downtown Kennesaw on Sept. 30 and headed north along a historic rail line that was the scene of one of the Civil War’s most daring exploits.
I filmed a quick video reflecting on passing through the 1928 tunnel on the Western & Atlantic Railroad during the “first-ever immersive reenactment of the Great Locomotive Chase” from Kennesaw, Georgia, to Ringgold, Georgia.
Explore two antebellum Southern railroads — the Western & Atlantic and the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville. Both share striking similarities, but their fates diverged dramatically. What factors led to such different outcomes? Dive into history!
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.
On a November evening in 1891, tragedy struck when a Western & Atlantic passenger train was derailed between Atlanta and Smyrna, and sabotage was likely to blame for the wreck.
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.