"Southern" Steam @ TVRM *PIC*

Steve Freer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:48 am

One additional Autumn Leaf Special has been added to the calendar at TVRM. All trips had been sold out so now is your chance: Sunday, November 2. All seating options are available including chartering business car "Eden Isle". Coach tickets are $77, Pullman Section $82, Pullman Compartment $90. All tickets include a dining car luncheon enroute to Summerville, Georgia from Chattanooga. This is a 100-mile round trip behind 2-8-0 #610. The newly-installed turntable will be used in Summerville. Tickets can be purchased via phone, mail, email, or fax.

TVRM
V 423-894-8028
F 423-894-8029
E info@tvrail.com
M 4119 Cromwell Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37421

Tennessee Valley Railroad

sfreer@tvrail.com

H Porter · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:05 am

How are you guys getting around the NS "No Steam" rule? The NYS&WT&HS trips to Port Jervis were just cancelled because they operate over a line leased from NS. My understanding is that the Chattanooga & Chickamunga shortline is also leased from NS.

Steve Freer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:37 am

TVRM operates over the Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway. The railroad itself is owned by the State of Georgia and operated under contract by C&C.

Chattooga & Chickamauga Railway
sfreer@tvrail.com

Matt Bumgarner · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:50 pm

Steve,

Is TVRM still running the "Downtown Arrow"? Isn't that over NS trackage?

Just curious,

Matt Bumgarner

G. Mark Ray - TVRM · **Posted:** Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:17 pm

Our operating agreement with NS that allows us to run downtown is still in effect.

G. Mark - TVRM

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
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Alan Walker · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:08 am

What neither Mark or Steve mentioned in their posts is that the trackage area covered by our agreement with NS runs up to the point where the C&C's trackage agreement ends in Chattanooga. Thus the Autumn Leaf Specials and Downtown Arrows can operate under the agreements that each carrier has with NS, with no additional strings (such as prohibitions of friction bearing equipped cars)attached since the operations are interline, not interchange.

awalker2002@comcast.net

Charles T. McCullough · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:54 pm

I realize that you are pushing the "Autumn Leaf Special", but that photo would be just a beautiful if you cropped off the upper half!

Thanks for posting it.

Semper Vaporo,
Charles T. McCullough

L Beckman · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:41 pm

> One additional Autumn Leaf Special has been
> added to the calendar at TVRM. All trips had
> been sold out so now is your chance: Sunday,
> November 2. All seating options are
> available including chartering business car
> "Eden Isle". Coach tickets are
> $77, Pullman Section $82, Pullman
> Compartment $90. All tickets include a
> dining car luncheon enroute to Summerville,
> Georgia from Chattanooga. This is a 100-mile
> round trip behind 2-8-0 #610. The
> newly-installed turntable will be used in
> Summerville. Tickets can be purchased via
> phone, mail, email, or fax.

> TVRM
> V 423-894-8028
> F 423-894-8029
> E info@tvrail.com
> M 4119 Cromwell Rd, Chattanooga, TN 37421

Steve: Is that a bell over the front wheel of the 610? I can't see another bell on the Consol in the photo. If it IS a bell, is that the original location on these U.S. Army locomotives?
Thanks.

Les Beckman (HVRM)

midlandblb@cs.com

Alan Walker · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 9:09 am

That is indeed the 610's locomotive bell. Originally the locomotive had a yoke mounted bell on a platform that attached to the front of the smokebox inbetween the 10 and 11 o'clock position. From what photographs I have seen of the 610 and other similar USATC locomotives, I believe that that was the standard bell location on S-160 and A class locomotives. So why is the bell mounted under the front left corner of the pilot? It just happened to get put there when we restored the locomotive and was never relocated.

awalker2002@comcast.net