What mayor would not want an attraction like that to help out the downtown?

That's no surprise. TVRM has long been referred to as Chattanooga's best kept secret. During the time that the museum was running services to Terminal Station, we did see good loadings. The operation of trains between the museum and downtown is somewhat complicated due to the low speed industrial belt line that the trains must use and the traffic and condition of CT Interlocking. When I was working as a conductor there, we sometimes incurred extreme delays of an hour or more due to traffic and often had to reroute through the interlocking due to switch or signal problems. There has been discussion of alternative access to Terminal Station from the Belt Railway, but I do not know what has come of those discussions.

Philadelphia, Pa., and probably Detroit, Mich., who both got rid of the heritage
trolley operations in their towns. Now Scranton, Pa. does want, they got the
Philadelphia cars and others.