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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.
TVRM quickly determined that No. 4501 required a thorough rebuild to obtain a new boiler ticket, and at the time, the museum did not have enough funds for it. [40] No. 4501 was then retired while the museum concentrated their efforts and investment on rebuilding SOU 2-8-0 No. 630, and Ex- U.S. Army 2-8-0 No. 610 subsequently covered TVRM's ...
San Jose Steam Railroad Museum (Proposed) San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway; Sierra Railroad; Sonoma TrainTown Railroad; Southern California Railway Museum (Formerly known as the Orange Empire Railway Museum from 1956 to 2018) Western Pacific Railroad Museum; Western Railway Museum; Yosemite Mountain ...
No. 610 was the very last steam locomotive to be built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton for an American customer, being built in March 1952. [1] [2] By the end of the 1950s, No. 610 was one of eight steam locomotives owned by the U.S. Army railroad and was used to train military soldiers in railroad operation and maintenance. [1]
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 ...
On static display at the C&O Historical Society in Clifton Forge, Virginia [2] Illinois Central 6071 July 1964 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Illinois Central Gulf Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad; Canadian National Railway; 2009 On static display at the Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello, Illinois [3]
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM), the largest historic operating railroad in the South, and the Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway also provide railroad service in Chattanooga. The headquarters of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) were located in Chattanooga next to the TVRM from 1982 to 2013, when the NMRA moved to Soddy ...
Virginian 4, the last surviving steam engine of the Virginian Railway, on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia.. Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ...