Whistle Stop
Southern 630 at the historic Bristol station.
Norfolk and Western Railway built this station in 1902. It was the fourth to be built here on the land donated to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad by Rev. James King in 1848. In 1902, John P. Pettyjohn & Company of Lynchburg, Virginia built this depot, then known as the Union Station at a cost of $79,063.
Southern Railway 630 (commonly referred to as Southern 630) is a 2-8-0 Consolidation type steam locomotive built in February 1904 by the Richmond Works of the American Locomotive Company for the Southern Railway.
The locomotive was put into local and branch line service in Knoxville, Tennessee by Southern Railway and moved to Asheville, North Carolina to run on the Murphy Branch until it was retired from freight service in November 1952.