When Hillbillies Play With Trains

[JerryC]

I am very familiar with the town of Adairsville, GA. I grew up near there, lived there for a while, and it is still part of my daily commute. I even modeled it in MSTS as part of the Western & Atlantic Route.

Adairsville's claim to fame (tenuous at best) is the Great Locomotive Chase. Andrew's Raiders and the General were stopped at Adairsville by a suspicious Station Master. If he had played his gut, the Chase would have been over then and there, but he let the Yankees go north anyway. Adairsville commemorates this even today with a Great Locomotive Chase festival, which is for some reason held the first week of October of every year (the Chase was in April). Now, a local has come out with a book called Life in Adairsville. Interestingly, he has tried to play off of the Locomotive Chase with the front cover of the book. However, like the wrong date for the festival, the book cover misses the mark.

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That definitely ain't the General, and i'm pretty sure it's not an American locomotive. Could some of you folks from the Old World ID that type of locomotive?

[RAILSOHIO]

A year or two ago,there was another feature on the "Chase",in one of the mags. And it featured artwork showing the modernized version of the General,and the participants had their guns a blazing. As well documented an event as this was,how does it still get represented so poorly? There is a possibility that could be Adairsville Scotland....... Joe Swogger (a huge fan of the GLC)

[ex-railwayman]

I could hazard a guess that this is a British 2-8-0 steamer, Jerry, built in Glasgow (Scotland) for the War Department, one of these did actually go to the States after the war to the US Army Transportation Corps, have a look on Wikipedia, here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD_Austerity_2-8-0

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

[AdmiralLeviathan]

It appears to be an Italian FS.740 steam engine.