We still are the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. We are an operating museum, whatever that is.

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I understand they tried to get one of the locomotives back; that was probably the one. I believe there is another one up in Canada.

I took a tour of the place a few years, and have posted my pictures (along with others taken at an earlier date) at the link below. The story behind our trip to see it is part of the Hefner family lore; and visiting it was like stepping into on of Colin Garratt's or Ron Ziel's books.

> I imagine the New Museum at Long Lief, La
> would like to have the former Red, River and
> Gulf 4-4-0 back, since they have the rest of
> the railroads rolling stock and the lumber
> mill and railroad to go with it. If you ever
> get the chance to go there, go it's a neat
> place. My dad visited there just after they
> closed in the 60's and he took my brother
> and I in the 80's and my brother and I went
> back just after the site was donated to the
> state in the mid 90's. It's a wealth of
> history and information on the logging
> industry and railroads with a lot of hard to
> find equipment to boot.

> Stuart


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