WOW, thanks for capturing and sharing this local history with those like me who were not around for scenes like this.
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What a beauty!
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Thanks for posting, and more of same please, if you have them. But it might be worth pointing out that K&T 12 did not "become Southern 4501"; Baldwin built it as SOU 4501 in 1911, and Southern sold it to K&T in 1948, IIRC from Southern's "dead line" in Princeton, IN. When Paul Merriman (co-founder of Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, in 1961) personally bought it from K&T in 1964 (for $5,000), just as K&T was about to scrap it, he repainted it as SOU 4501, and got Southern to let him run it, as a one-off trip, to Chatanooga, TN. This was the genesis of the Southern steam program, and later Merriman leased the locomotive to Southern for use on excursions. Steam's Camalot is a very enjoyable read that tells this whole story.
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