A Weekend in Chattanooga - Part Two
We awoke the next day of our visit in Chattanooga to pouring down rain. Bad for us, but the area needed the watering it gave.
Our trip on the Tennessee Valley Railroad would start at 10:30 and the train will travel from near Hixson, TN to East Chattanooga, then south to Rossville, which straddles the state line and on to Chickamauga, GA. We would have several hours for lunch and to visit the restored downtown area full of little stores and shops (that’s how I get my wife to go with me).
We arrived at the station about 9:15 as they have a large display of old cars and engines out front.
Bill Haithcoat said this was one of his favorites.
She needs a little work, but a grand looking car.
They have some nice old steam engines and an assortment of passenger cars from days gone by.
This car could be rented for about $1200 a day for your group and hooked on to the rear of any of their excursion trains.
Our train, this day, was pulled by this old diesel.
Again, sorry for the quality of some of these pictures. It was raining when we got there and my wife held an umbrella over me so I could take them.
But, by the time we were ready to pull out of the station, it started to clear a little. I was able to stand in a vestibule with the door open and take pictures from there. That was nice and allowed for some interesting shots.
Just as we left the station, and earlier, short excursion, pulled by an old steam engine came into the station next to us.
A short while after leaving the station we came to some CSX yards in East Chattanooga. We had cross them and sat and waited as a CSX freight cleared the area (sounds like Amtrak).
As that freight passed by us, I saw a camera materialize in the cab and they were taking pictures of me taking pictures of them!
See the next Message for the Continuation of this reprort.
We awoke the next day of our visit in Chattanooga to pouring down rain. Bad for us, but the area needed the watering it gave.
Our trip on the Tennessee Valley Railroad would start at 10:30 and the train will travel from near Hixson, TN to East Chattanooga, then south to Rossville, which straddles the state line and on to Chickamauga, GA. We would have several hours for lunch and to visit the restored downtown area full of little stores and shops (that’s how I get my wife to go with me).
We arrived at the station about 9:15 as they have a large display of old cars and engines out front.
Bill Haithcoat said this was one of his favorites.
She needs a little work, but a grand looking car.
They have some nice old steam engines and an assortment of passenger cars from days gone by.
This car could be rented for about $1200 a day for your group and hooked on to the rear of any of their excursion trains.
Our train, this day, was pulled by this old diesel.
Again, sorry for the quality of some of these pictures. It was raining when we got there and my wife held an umbrella over me so I could take them.
But, by the time we were ready to pull out of the station, it started to clear a little. I was able to stand in a vestibule with the door open and take pictures from there. That was nice and allowed for some interesting shots.
Just as we left the station, and earlier, short excursion, pulled by an old steam engine came into the station next to us.
A short while after leaving the station we came to some CSX yards in East Chattanooga. We had cross them and sat and waited as a CSX freight cleared the area (sounds like Amtrak).
As that freight passed by us, I saw a camera materialize in the cab and they were taking pictures of me taking pictures of them!
See the next Message for the Continuation of this reprort.