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The Great Locomotive Chase Festival is a three-day celebration held in remembering the Great Locomotive Chase of April 12, 1862. It is held the first weekend each October in the center of downtown Adairsville, Georgia.
Adairsville is a city in Bartow County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 4,878. Adairsville is approximately halfway between Atlanta and Chattanooga on Interstate 75. It is 12 miles (19 km) south of Calhoun, 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Rome and 61 miles (98 km) north of Atlanta.
The tracks were broken by the raiders two miles (3.2 km) south of Adairsville and Fuller had to run the two miles on foot. At Adairsville, Fuller got the locomotive Texas and chased the General. While all of this was happening, Andrews' Raiders were cutting the telegraph wires so no transmissions could go through to Chattanooga.
Atlanta Dogwood Festival — Atlanta; Big Pig Jig — Vienna; Big Shanty Festival — Kennesaw; The Great Locomotive Chase Festival — Adairsville; Marble Festival — Jasper; Yellow Daisy Festival — Stone Mountain
It would be republished in 1881 as Capturing a Locomotive and 1889 as The Great Locomotive Chase. [25] The book was a major success and was widely praised. Two decades later, one newspaper would claim it “was in half the old soldier households in the country.” [6] Buster Keaton's silent film comedy The General is loosely based on Pittenger ...
William Allen Fuller (April 15, 1836 – December 28, 1905) was a conductor on the Western & Atlantic Railroad during the American Civil War era. He was most noted for his role in the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase, a daring sabotage mission and raid conducted by soldiers of the Union Army in northern Georgia.
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Southern Railway "Maud" 1509 is an A class 0-4-4T type steam locomotive and the oldest surviving steam locomotive of the Southern Railway. The engine was built by Baldwin in December 1879 for the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway, originally numbered 27 and named Talullah.