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RE: (rshsdepot) Re: Southern Depots
Another side note: When the L&N brought the "General" through Chattanooga
on its way to be donated to the State of GA, the mayor and council members
actually went to Craven's Yards with guns in an attempt to keep the engine
in Chattanooga where it had sat for 80 years in Union Station.
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 8:56 AM
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Subject: (rshsdepot) Re: Southern Depots
In a message dated 8/3/2007 4:37:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
UnknownSender_@_UnknownDomain writes:
Dumb question - when is it NC&StL and when is it L&N? I know the railroads
shared rail from Atlanta to Cartersville, and ultimately combine and
recombine (and recombine again) to become Family Lines and then CSX, but I
always think of Etowah as Louisville and Nashville station and line(s).
The L&N bought the NC&St.L in a hostile stock take over in 1880. The
allowed
the NC to operate as a subsidiary company until August 1957. The NC&St.L
had
trackage from Chattanooga to Atlanta by 99 year lease of the Georgia state
owned Western and Atlantic RR. As a side note the L&N made a deal with the
State of Georgia where the state gained control of the Civil War engine
"The
General" in exchange for a renewal of the lease.
Terry L. Coats- VP
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Ry.
Preservation Society
www.ncstl.com
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