Charlie Barrett, sometimes spelled Charley, was the engineer on train No. 2, the last Western and Atlantic Railroad train from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Georgia, to operate over the railroad’s five-foot gauge. The railroad subsequently changed its gauge to match the national gauge.
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