Two trains they called Nancy Hanks

People who remember taking a train called the Nancy Hanks from Savannah to Atlanta actually took the Nancy Hanks II, and the trains are not directly named after Abraham Lincoln’s mother, but after a horse fast running. Those were two potentially surprising facts that Rodney Harville and Sims Lanier, members of the Bulloch County Historical Society, shared with members and guests Monday. Harville and Lanier’s presentation on the last regular passenger train service between Savannah and Atlanta, which ceased in 1971, and its former namesake, recently drew one of the largest crowds at a regular Society meeting historical, around 100 people.