Atlanta exists because of the railroad. A newly-gifted railroad archive will help tell the story of Atlanta. In 1836 the state of Georgia decided to build the Western & Atlantic railroad to link ...

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It's been easy of late to start an argument over whether Cincinnati should sell its railway. Controversy, it turns out, is as old as the railway itself. “There were frequent debates ... to complete ...