The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Rail Division have awarded $7.5 million and $12.9 million, respectively, to rail projects at short lines ...

The General Assembly of Georgia, by an act of 1925, directed the Georgia Public Service Commission to compile all data pertaining to the Western and Atlantic Railroad and instructed it to employ its ...

US-based railroad holding company Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) has signed an agreement to acquire Heart of Georgia Railroad’s (HoG) parent company, Atlantic Western Transportation. After completion of the ...

When it comes to history, politicians and generals get all the glory, while no one gives credit to the engineers. Stephen Harriman Long is an interesting example. Were it not for Long, the city of ...

The street name “Big Shanty Drive,” which runs through the heart of Kennesaw, calls back to the city’s early days as a bustling shantytown for the Western and Atlantic Railroad, built by workers who ...