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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
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 ...
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. [68] [69] Railroad photographer O. Winston Link made a cameo appearance in the film as the engineer driving No. 4501. [69]
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 ...
website, departure point for the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum: Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum: Collegedale: Hamilton: East: Archaeology: Part of Southern Adventist University, ancient Near East objects Lynnville Railroad Museum: Lynville: Giles: Middle: Railroad [24] Mabry-Hazen House: Knoxville: Knox: East: Historic house
Following its relocation to Chattanooga, the engine was restored by the newly formed Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and returned to service in 1966. Through the support of the Southern Railway (and later Norfolk Southern Railway), the locomotive began operating excursions over the railroad's main lines until 1994 when the excursion program ...
Tennessee Valley Railroad No. 610 is a preserved S160 Class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation for the U.S. Army in March 1952. It is one of the last steam locomotives built for service in the United States and the last new steam locomotive acquired by the U.S. Army.