Winder, Ga.: Local Freight, April 29, 2005

Sometimes you’re walking into a museum and you hear the bell at the nearby crossing gates.

The Southeastern Railway Museum has started an interior renovation of a historic Pullman car that transported the body of President Warren G. Harding after he died in 1923.

The General steam locomotive pulled the morning passenger train, winding its way through the rural Georgia countryside. Shortly before 6 a.m. on a rainy morning, Engineer Jeff Cain blew the locomotive’s whistle to signal that Big Shanty was approaching.