Remarks to the Rotary Club of Vinings Cumberland, April 23, 2025

This is a rough transcript.

Thank you. I appreciate that and Bienvenidos.

Gracias para ven aqui hoy. Quiero hablar un poquito de trenes.

My Spanish is a little bit rusty, so I hope that was somewhat accurate. That’s all in Spanish I’m gonna use today because the rest will be terrible.

…I have a few thoughts I wanted to share about railroads. I used AI to write this presentation, so I hope everything is correct. It’s a joke presentation, although I should do that one day and see how accurate it is.

I’d love to take questions, if you wouldn’t mind just holding them off to the very end. Otherwise, if you ask mid presentation, I might lose my train…of thought.

And with that, I’d like to say thank you and have a good day. I’m kidding. Questions are my favorite part of the presentation, because you want to know why, it’s one of the few times you can actually just make up history, and no one knows we’re telling the truth or not, right? Because the speaker said it has to be true.

No, I’m kidding. I’d love to take questions. I’d love to talk about what you are interested in, what you want to know.

I thought I’d start out today — I was thinking about where to begin the presentation, and when we’re talking about railroads in this area, and I’ll just sort of define Atlanta, Vinings and Smyrna generally as this area. I thought I would go back to the beginning. And I thought I’d go back to December 24, 1842, because it was a bit of a watershed moment for the Western and Atlantic Railroad.

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