Double Heading
Southern Railway 630 and 4501 are double heading through Chattanooga.
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.
Southern Railway 4501 is a 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive built in October 1911 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Southern Railway. 4501 served the Southern hauling freight until being retired in 1964.
The engine appeared in many movies and television shows. In the TV show Christy, the engine pulled the train that took the main character from her home in Asheville to the fictional town of Cutter Gap, TN.