| Today, I visited the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga and had the opportunity to ride the museums excursion train, sitting on the firemans seat in the cab of Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630. My Great Grandfather operated this locomotive as the crew fireman in the 1970s on excursion trips all over the South. The seat I sat in was the same one he sat in over thirty five years ago. The photo below is my Great Grandfather in the cab of Southern Railway Heavy 2-8-2 #6605, near Alabama, sometime in 1945. Its not the 630 - I dont have any photos of him in 630, but I thought Id pose as he did back in the day, in one of the engines he would eventually operate thirty years later. |
| Date:
7/27/2013 |
Location:
Chattanooga, TN Map  |
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317 |
Collection Of:
 
Drayton Blackgrove |
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Author: Drayton Blackgrove
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| Picture Categories: InCab,Steam |
This picture is part of album: TVRM |