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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.
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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 ...
Ex-Southern Railway #4501. Sold to the K&T in October 1948 and renumbered 12. Retired in February 1964. Now operating at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. [3] 101: ALCo S-2: American Locomotive Company: May 1944: unknown: 1987: Ex-Denver & Rio Grande Western #110. Sold to the K&T in 1963. [3] 102: ALCo S-2: American Locomotive Company: May ...
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 ...
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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]
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 ...