RE: (rshsdepot) Re: Southern Depots

["James Kelling" <james.kelling_@_nara.gov>]

The General now resides at the Civil War Museum in Kennesaw, Georgia,
which I believe used to be named Big Shanty, where the locomotive was
"hijacked" in 1862 by the Andrews raiders.  The 1955 Disney film, "The
Great Locomotive Chase" was filmed in north Georgia and gives a taste of
what railroading and stations were like in the 1860s.  Just ignore that
steel sided boxcar you see in the film, however.  
 
J. Kelling 

>>> kentondi_@_comcast.net 8/3/2007 2:40 PM >>>

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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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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