Todd DeFeo loves to travel anywhere, anytime, taking pictures and notes. An award-winning reporter, Todd revels in the experience and the fact that every place has a story to tell. He is the owner of The DeFeo Groupe and also edits Express Telegraph and Railfanning.org.
Standing at the corner of 10th and Commerce streets in Clarksville, Tennessee, it may be hard to imagine this was once a bustling transportation hub. The old depot, known by locals as the L&N Station, still stands, but passenger trains no longer pass through the city. Freight trains seldom rumble through town, even if at a volume below the heyday of railroading in this Middle Tennessee community. But, the first of the railroads to pass