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Great Locomotive Chase
allen griggs
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I went down to the Atlanta History Center today and got to climb aboard the locomotive Texas. What a fantastic sight! It has been completely restored and looks brand new.
We taught those Yankees, in 1962, "Don't Mess With Georgia Trains."
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Beautiful
When I was a kid we frequented Colorado and would often go to the train museum in Golden. Those engines were impressive!
We had a friend in Boulder Colorado that built the things in his shop and drove them all over his property. Most impressive was an articulated Mallet. Check the firewood in the tender for scale.
Love the trains
The last time I saw the Texas was at Grant Park roped of..."no touchy", didn't know is had been moved to a new location ??
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Chased them down in reverse!
My favorite field trip in school was when they took us to the museum of transportation in St.Louis
The Texas, and the Cyclorama, were both in Grant Park. I was down there checking them out when I was in high school.
Five years ago I went to the Atlanta Historical Center, really a fascinating place, and I saw that they had the Cyclorama! And I said "That painting is 50 feet high and must be 1,000 feet long! How did you get it to this place?" This is about a 10 mile move.
He said "It wasn't easy." And they got the Texas as well. By some means, they rolled the Texas out of the Cyclorama exhibit at Grant Park and shipped it to Chattanooga for an overhaul. Then they shipped it back to Buckhead [n. Atlanta] to the Historical Center. They paid $3 million to ship and overhaul the Texas.
You can climb right up and stand where the engineers stood in 1862. A fantastic sight to see. The restoration work is just beautiful it looks brand new.
Absolutely. Went there many times. Never disappointed.