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The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (reporting mark TVRM) [1] is a railroad museum and heritage railroad in Chattanooga, Tennessee.. The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H. Merriman and Robert M. Soule, Jr., along with a group of local railway preservationists.
Tennessee and Sequatchie Valley Railroad: 1880 1883 Tennessee Central Railroad: Tennessee Southern Railroad: IC: 1881 1884 Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway: Tennessee State Line Railroad: SOU: 1882 1886 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad: Tennessee Valley Railroad: SOU: 1887 1888 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
In 1967, Nos. 722 and 630 were both traded back to the SOU for use in their steam excursion program until 1980, when they were sent to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga, Tennessee to make way for larger steam locomotives haul the longer and heavier excursion trains. In late 1985, No. 722 was taken out of service and was ...
The majority of the best Chattanooga train rides for fall are organized through the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM), which was founded in 1961 as part of an effort to preserve, restore ...
Nos. 630 and 722 pulled many main line excursion trains for the SOU steam program until they were both loaned to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in 1978 and 1980, respectively to make way for larger steam locomotives such as Canadian Pacific 2839, Texas and Pacific 610 and Chesapeake and Ohio 2716 to pull the longer and heavier ...
In April 1998, No. 4501 was painted in N&W colors and equipped with a J class whistle, and it was ferried to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) trackage for filming of the 1999 film October Sky. [67] [68] Railroad photographer O. Winston Link made a cameo appearance in the film as the engineer driving No. 4501. [68]
Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Starting from Grand Junction Station, this historic train ride takes you through the stunning scenery of the Tennessee Valley. Passengers can ...
Before the line was closed, the governments of Hickman, Lewis, Wayne, and Perry counties with the support of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Tennessee Department of Transportation formed the South Central Tennessee Railroad Authority to purchase the tracks and associated infrastructure in 1978, forming the South Central Tennessee ...