Railfanning.org
  • Home
  • News
    • Amtrak
    • BNSF
    • Canadian National
    • Canadian Pacific
    • Commuter Rail
    • CSX
    • Norfolk Southern
    • Union Pacific
    • Press Releases
  • Trackside Guide
  • Rolling Stock
  • Profiles
  • Safety
  • History
    • Directory of Historic Railroads
    • Atlanta Northern Railway
    • Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad
    • Northeast Corridor
    • Western & Atlantic Railroad
    • The Andrews Raid
    • Tennessee Central
  • Store
    • Books
    • Railroadiana
  • More
    • About
    • Contact
    • Encyclopedia
    • Library
    • Photo Galleries
    • Podcast
    • The Cross-Tie
  • Earnings
  • East Palestine Wreck
  • Podcast
  • Georgia
  • Northeast Corridor
  • Western & Atlantic
  • Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville
The Latest
  • [ June 18, 2025 ] MARTA Board Approves NextGen Bus Network Transit
  • [ June 16, 2025 ] Operation Lifesaver Launches Inaugural ENS Sign Awareness Day on June 24 Safety
  • [ June 14, 2025 ] CN to Spend Millions as Part of 2025 Capital Investment Program Canadian National
  • [ June 14, 2025 ] MARTA Board Adopts Fiscal 2026 Operating Budget Transit
  • [ June 14, 2025 ] Delaware Federal Court Dismisses Antitrust Challenge to Wabtec-GE Transportation Merger Miscellaneous
HomeWestern & Atlantic

Western & Atlantic

Rail Blog

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

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.

Featured

Odds Not Likely on Georgia Selling the Western & Atlantic Railroad

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

Rail Blog

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

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.

Miscellaneous

Kennesaw Stabilizing Historic Depot

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

Miscellaneous

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

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.

Photo Galleries

Remnants of a Derailment in Kingston, Georgia

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

Photo Galleries

A Southbound CSX Freight Appears for Sunday Railfanning in Kingston

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

Atlanta in 1856
History

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

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

Featured

The Collision on the State Road: A Byproduct of War

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.

History

The First Western & Atlantic Train to Chattanooga

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.

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 4 »

Support Railfanning.org

Click here to support Railfanning.org.

Top Stories

  • Get Ready: Eating and Drinking the Western & Atlantic is Coming!
  • A MARTA bus operates in Atlanta, Georgia.
    MARTA Board Approves NextGen Bus Network
  • Operation Lifesaver Launches Inaugural ENS Sign Awareness Day on June 24
  • Canadian National Railway Company in Chicago.
    CN to Spend Millions as Part of 2025 Capital Investment Program
  • MARTA Board Adopts Fiscal 2026 Operating Budget

Sign Up for Our Emails

Subscribe

* indicates required
/* real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups */

Intuit Mailchimp

Explore Railroad History

Western & Atlantic Railroad

Tennessee Central Railroad

Before you copy and paste this information to your website, please keep in mind this research took a lot of effort. Appreciate it. Learn from it. But do not plagiarize it. Yes, if you think we might be talking to you, we are.
Archives
About Railfanning.org

Railfanning.org is published by The DeFeo Groupe, LLC. All original content (c) 2002-2025 The DeFeo Groupe, LLC, and may not be republished without express written consent.

Before You Plagiarize

Before you copy and paste this information to your website, please keep in mind this research took a lot of effort. Appreciate it. Learn from it. But do not plagiarize it. Yes, if you think we might be talking to you, we are.

The Latest
  • Get Ready: Eating and Drinking the Western & Atlantic is Coming!
  • A MARTA bus operates in Atlanta, Georgia.
    MARTA Board Approves NextGen Bus Network
  • Operation Lifesaver Launches Inaugural ENS Sign Awareness Day on June 24
  • Canadian National Railway Company in Chicago.
    CN to Spend Millions as Part of 2025 Capital Investment Program
  • MARTA Board Adopts Fiscal 2026 Operating Budget

(c) 2025 The DeFeo Groupe, LLC.