Central Tennessee Railway Museum
2010 Equipment Guide
1. Steam Locomotives
Tennessee Central #502 Is a 4-6-0 Baldwin built in 1916. It was acquired in 2002 and was restored from 2002-2008. It worked both passenger and freight service on TC between Harriman and Nashville.
Georgia Power #38 Is an Alco 0-4-0T built in 1941. It was used in small switching service at Georgia Power Service’s Atlanta, Georgia power station. It was purchased by it’s private owner in 1985 and moved to CTRM in 1999 via truck from Soddy Daisy, Tennessee.
2. Diesel Locomotives
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio #812B Is an Electro-Motive Division F7A built in 1953 at London, Ontario for the GM&O. It was used in freight service between 1953 and 1972. In 1972 the GM&O became Illinois Central Gulf and ICG used the 812B in commuter service to and from Joliet, Illinois. It has 1,500HP and is equipped with an EMD 567C engine. It weighs 115 tons.
Southern Railway #6300 Is a Fairbanks-Morse Trainmaster built in 1957 for the Southern Railway and was used in short passenger service by Southern in Georgia and Alabama. In 1991, Norfolk Southern sold the unit to Franklin Industrial Minerals in Crab Orchard, Tennessee where it was used briefly between 1992 and 1993 when it was retired. It was acquired by CTRM in May of 2003 and became operational in October of 2005. It is equipped with a Fairbanks-Morse 44-6C engine producing 2,500HP and weighs 146 tons.
Louisville & Nashville #2297 Is an Electro-Motive Division SW1200 built in 1956 at La Grange, Illinois. It was used in L&N’s yard in Louisville, Kentucky all of it’s revenue life. CSX donated the unit to CTRM in February of 1996 in operating condition. It is equipped with an EMD 567C engine producing 1,200HP.
Tennessee Central #252 Is an Alco RS-3 built in 1955 for the Tennessee Central at Schenectady, New York. It was used in revenue coal service between Wilder, Tennessee and Hopkinsville, Kentucky. It was built with an Alco 244 engine and was re-built in 1975 by it’s private owner with an Alco 251 engine producing 1,800HP. The locomotive weighs 124 tons. The private owner moved the unit to CTRM in 1998 and allows the museum to operate it regularly.
Family Lines System (L&N) #8184 Is an Electro-Motive Division SD40-2 diesel locomotive built in 1968 for the Louisville & Nashville.
The unit is equipped with an EMD 645 diesel engine producing 3,800HP and weighs 133 tons. It was donated to CTRM in 2004 by CSX Transportation and was painted in FLS colors in spring of 2005.
It is non-operational.
CSX Transportation #6379 Is an Electro-Motive Division GP40-2 diesel locomotive built in 1969 for the Seaboard Coast Line. It is equipped with an EMD 645D diesel locomotive producing 3,250HP.
3. Passenger Equipment
Southern Railway #1087 Is a day coach built in 1923 for the Southern Railway and used system wide until 1966. It was acquired in 2008 from the Louisiana Arts and Science Museum and restored to original condition in 2009. It is part of CTRM’s regular excursion trains.
Southern Railway #3659 Is a day coach sub-lettered for Southern subsidiary CNO&TP which was the owner of the current Norfolk Southern line through Harriman. The coach was used between Chattanooga and Lexington on passenger trains until 1960. It was built in 1917. It resided in a back yard in Corbin, Kentucky until being purchased by CTRM in 1996. It was restored in 1996 also.
Milwaukee Road #4699 Is an air conditioned coach built in 1945 by the American Car Foundry. It was used on Olympian Hiawatha trains until 1973. It was donated to CTRM in 1999. The car is occasionally used on the museum’s trains during large and crowed events.
Baltimore & Ohio #10064 Is a heavy-weight coach built in 1938.
It was used on trains between Indianapolis, Indiana and Decatur, Illinois from 1938 to 1951. It was donated by CSX Transportation in 2000. It is occasionally used on museum trains.
Georgia Railroad #300 Is a heavy-weight observation/office car built in 1949 by Pullman. It is most famous for it’s role in the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. It was donated to CTRM in 2010.
Southern Railway #142 Is a United States Mail Railway Post Office built for the Southern Railway in 1936. It was used to carry mail from Atlanta to Washington, D.C between 1936 and 1945 when it was downgraded to Jacksonville, Florida to Knoxville, Tennessee service. It was retired in 1967 when the railroads lost their mail contracts and was converted to a Maintenance of Way storage car by Southern in 1970. It remained in MoW servive with Southern and successor Norfolk Southern until 1988 when it was retired by NS and stored in Knoxville, Tennessee’s John Sevier Yard until being donated to CTRM in 1998.
Southern Railway #277 Is an express baggage car used by the Railway Express Agency. It was built in 1915 and was used in REA service in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee until 1961. It was retired in 1961 and stored in Atlanta until being reactivated by Southern in 1970 for MoW service. Like the #142 it was retired in 1988 and stored in Knoxville until being donated in 1998.
Southern Railway #2422 “Lake Pearl” Is a Pullman 10-6 sleeper built in 1932 for the Southern Railway and used on early “Crescent” passenger trains until 1947. It was donated to CTRM by a private owner in 1996.
Southern Railway “Lookout Mountain” Is a Pullman 10-6 sleeper built in 1932 for the Southern Railway and used on early “Crescent” passenger trains until 1947. It was donated to CTRM by a private owner in 1996.
Southern Railway #811 Is a streamlined coach built in 1950 for the Southern Railway’s intercity passenger trains. It was used system wide and was retired in 1975. It was donated by Tennessee Valley Railroad in 2001.
Pennsylvania Railroad #4639 Is an all wood combine built in 1873 by Pennsylvania at it’s Altoona works. It is private owned.
4. Freight Equipment
Norfolk & Western #180790 Is a two bay open hopper built in 1962 by N&W. It was used in North Carolina and Virginia until 1984.
It was donated to CTRM in 1996.
Southern Railway #14529 Is a 40ft steel sided boxcar built in 1959 for the Southern Railway and used in general goods services until 1985 when Norfolk Southern retired it. It was donated to CTRM in 2002 by NS.
Southern Railway #54654 Is a 40ft wooden stockcar built in 1939 by Southern Railway for cattle service in Alabama. It was donated to CTRM by a private owner in 2007.
Norfolk & Western #49422 Is a 40ft double door steel boxcar built in 1967 by American Car Foundry for N&W. It was used mainly on the former Wabash lines between Detroit and St. Louis.
G.A.T.X #44777 Is a three dome tank car built in 1955 and used in chemical service in Florida. It was on the GATX roster until 1997 and was donated to CTRM in 2006.
North Carolina & St. Louis #18544 Is a 40ft steel boxcar built in 1948 by Pullman. It was used by both NC&StL and L&N. It was converted to new 33X70in trucks in 1977. It was donated to CTRM in 2004 and re-equipped with old style trucks.
Southern Railway #527744 Is a 50ft high cube boxcar built in 1973. It was used by both Southern and NS, however it was never painted in NS colors. It arrived in 2008.
Southern Railway #994366 Is a ballast hopper built in 1974 for the Southern Railway’s MoW department. It was used in regular maintenance of the CNO&TP line between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Somerset, Kentucky. It was in service with Norfolk Southern when it was donated in 2005.
Southern Railway #74754 Is a 100 ton hopper built by American Car Foundry in 1980 for the Southern Railway. It was used in coal service on the very tracks the museum runs on.
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio #81044 Is a 4 bay covered hopper used in grain service between Kansas City and Chicago. It remained on the roster with Illinois Central as 777044 and was retired in 2001. CN/IC donated the car in 2002.
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio #21224 Is a 40ft steel boxcar built in 1960 for general goods services. It was used system wide until its retirement in 1986 by Illinois Central Gulf. It was brought to the museum by truck in 2010.
Pennsylvania Railroad #68408 Is a X31 built in 1939 by the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was used system wide from 1939 to 1986 operating with Pennsylvania, Penn Central and Conrail in freight service and ended its revenue life with Amtrak as an MoW car. It was last restored in 1990. Plans are to restore this car in the coming year as it is the last of its type.
T.T.X #470860 Is the prototype TTX Trailer on Flat Car design, it was the first 89ft car ever produced and the design has since become the standard ToFC design. It was purchased by its private owner in 1991 and moved to CTRM in 1999. It was restored and put on display in 2001. It was repainted in 2009.
Clinchfield #5660 Is a 50ft boxcar built in 1972 for the Clinchfield Railroad by Pullman. It was used in MoW service by both Clinchfield and CSX Transportation. It was retired in 2005 and moved to CTRM in January of 2006. It is used as the museum’s Haunted Boxcar on Halloween trains.
Wabash #76060 Is a 40ft double sheathed wood boxcar built in 1930 for the Wabash Railroad in Decatur, Illinois. It was used in grain service until 1965 and then used in goods services. It was retired by N&W in 1979 and purchased by a contractor who used it as a shed in Canton, Ohio. Its private owner purchased it in 1994 and moved it to the museum in 2001. It was completely restored in 2003.
United States Department of Defense #39906 Is a F34 flat car built in 1946 for the DoD for use in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the Manhatten Project. It was donated to CTRM in 1998.
