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Good ol‘ Rocky Top….Rocky Top Tennessee!

This Tuesday edition of Railfan Video of the Day takes us to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where we see some wonderful steam and diesel excursion action from the Tennessee Valley Railroad’s Railfest 2016 which took place this past weekend. Videographer The ‘Nooga Railfan captured the action on September 10 and 11 and shared it for us to see.

Among the locomotive stars of the video are:

#630, a 2-8-0 Consolidation (ALCO 1904) originally built for the Southern Railway (part of today’s Norfolk Southern)

#4501, a 2-8-2 Mikado (Baldwin 1911) that is perhaps the TV’s most famous, and certainly it’s most-traveled, steam locomotive. The 4501 has served in excursion service for the Southern Railway, Norfolk Southern, and Tennessee Valley numerous times since the 1970’s.

#2594, a GP-30 diesel built by EMD for the Southern Railway in 1962. It is currently on loan from the Atlanta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.

#3170, an SD-40 locomotive originally built by EMD for the Southern Railway and recently donated by Norfolk Southern.

#80, a Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia GP-38 locomotive

#1912, a GP-9 locomotive built by EMD

#606, a former Milwaukee Road SW1200 diesel built by EMD.

#710, a GP-7 diesel built by EMD for the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad (NC&St.L) in 1950. The NC&St.L later became part of the Louisville & Nashville (L&N), which is part of today’s CSX.

#3045, a Norfolk Southern GP-40-2 built by EMD, decorated in the Operation Lifesaver scheme.

#701, a Norfolk Southern RP-E4C “slug” unit, rebuilt from a Southern Railway EMD GP-38

Enjoy!

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The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum has been described as a “living, breathing, museum,” because it not only restores and displays vintage locomotives and equipment but operates them on numerous excursion routes in Tennessee and northern Georgia.

Now, go watch some trains!

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