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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 .
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Adairsville, Georgia: 69 69 10 Calhoun, Georgia: 79 79 11 Resaca, Georgia: 84 84 12 Tilton-unincorporated Dalton, Georgia: 90 90 13 Dalton, Georgia: 99 99 14 Tunnel Hill, Georgia: 107 108 Chetoogeta Mountain Tunnel completed May 7, 1850; tunnel dug from both ends, bores met on October 31, 1849; first through passenger train passed through May 7 ...
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.
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.
It was one of twenty-five similar locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903 for the Southern to haul freight. Between April 3–6, and August 23 - 24th, 1937, the locomotive was leased to the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway (A&Y), a subsidiary company of Southern Railroad. In June 1946, the A&Y requested No. 542 once more, this time in ...
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