Saturday, April 23, 2011
Steam engine 4501 on the way to Chattanooga
I spotted this video on You Tube today.
A popular minline excursion steam locomotive for many years in America's southern states region, was restored Southern Railway 2-8-2 Mikado type steam locomotive # 4501.
Originally painted black and used in freight train service by the Southern Railway, this locomotive was retired in 1948, and sold to the coal hauling short line Kentucky & Tennesee Railroad in Stearns Kentucky.
Reaquired by the Southern Railway after the K & T retired # 4501 in 1963, it was mechanically overhauled, repainted in the Southern Railway's green passenger train livery, and used for several years after on mainline charterd steam fantrips.
This locomotive is displayed today, at the Tennesee Valley Railroad museum in Chattanooga Tennesee.
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I rode behind this engine sometime in the l980's. It was great! I still have the yellow and green pin. Shar
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