The 4501
by Geraldine DeBoer
Title
The 4501
Artist
Geraldine DeBoer
Medium
Photograph - Print
Description
4501- built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1911 for the Southern Railway, the 4501 was the first of its class on that railroad. The wheel arrangement is a 2-8-2, known as a Mikado since the first of this type were sold to Japan. 4501 served the Southern until the 1940s when the railroad began buying diesel locomotives and phasing out steam operations. The locomotive then saw service on a small coal-hauling railroad in Kentucky. When the small Kentucky railroad put the 4501 up for sale for scrap value in the early 1960s, TVRM’s first president, Paul Merriman, purchased the locomotive, brought it to Chattanooga and returned it to service. Since the mid-1960s, 4501 has pulled countless passenger excursion trains across the Southern (later Norfolk Southern) Railway.
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September 14th, 2015
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Christiane Schulze Art And Photography
Fabulous image of this well maintained engine Geraldine (LF)
Geraldine DeBoer replied:
The story behind this is incredible. I loved it. Thank You for following me.
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