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A brief look at the Georgian passenger train (Part I: The early years)

May 12, 2024 Todd DeFeo

On November 17, 1946, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad jointly ushered in a new era when they introduced the Georgian diesel-powered streamliner running between St. Louis and Atlanta.

Odds Not Likely on Georgia Selling the Western & Atlantic Railroad

March 4, 2024 Todd DeFeo

Now that Cincinnati is selling the Cincinnati Southern Railway, could Georgia take the same approach with the historic Western & Atlantic?

People and Places of the Western & Atlantic Railroad: Episode 1: Smyrna, Georgia

February 26, 2024 Todd DeFeo

For this first episode of “People and Places of the Western & Atlantic Railroad,” we’re in the historic Smyrna Memorial Cemetery in Smyrna, Georgia, not far from the Western & Atlantic Railroad.

Kennesaw Stabilizing Historic Depot

July 8, 2023 Railfanning.org News Wire

City officials here have lifted the historic Kennesaw Depot to enable workers to improve the building’s foundation.

Railfanning.org Editor to Lead Bus Tour of Historic Western & Atlantic Railroad

September 7, 2022 Railfanning.org News Wire

Todd DeFeo, founder of The DeFeo Groupe and the publisher and editor of Railfanning.org, will lead a bus tour of the historic Western & Atlantic Railroad on Saturday, April 1, 2023.

Remnants of a Derailment in Kingston, Georgia

March 17, 2022 Railfanning.org News Wire

No one was injured in a mid-February CSX Transportation derailment in Kingston, but the remnants were visible a month later.

A Southbound CSX Freight Appears for Sunday Railfanning in Kingston

March 14, 2022 Todd DeFeo

The tiny town if Kingston is a community with a deep railroad history.

A Look at the Western & Atlantic’s First Train Depot in Atlanta

December 3, 2020 Todd DeFeo

“The Terminus will be a good location for one tavern, a blacksmith shop, a grocery store, and nothing else.”

The Collision on the State Road: A Byproduct of War

March 6, 2020 Todd DeFeo

It was about 3:30 p.m. on July 6, 1862, ostensibly a typical Sunday during the early years of the Civil War, when two trains collided near Ringgold, Georgia, on the Western & Atlantic Railroad.

The First Western & Atlantic Train to Chattanooga

February 28, 2020 Todd DeFeo

It was 7 a.m. on Dec. 1, 1849, and the western portion of the Western & Atlantic Railroad was open for business, even if the tunnel at Tunnel Hill was more than five months away from completion.