Southern No. 630 was built in 1904 by American Locomotive Company. The 2-8-0, or Consolidation, entered into freight service and replaced locomotives built in the 1890s.
Here, the locomotive pulls a Missionary Ridge local on a rainy morning, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013.
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On November 17, 1946, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad jointly ushered in a new era when they introduced the Georgian diesel-powered streamliner running between St. Louis and Atlanta.
It was 7 a.m. on Dec. 1, 1849, and the western portion of the Western & Atlantic Railroad was open for business, even if the tunnel at Tunnel Hill was more than five months away from completion.
“A Brief History of the Indiana, Alabama & Texas Railroad,” published by The DeFeo Groupe, an Atlanta-based content creation firm and publisher of Railfanning.org, focuses on the development and operation of the railroad, including the decade before the railroad formally formed. The book will be available starting in August.