Southern 630 rollin’ out of East Chattanooga. Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Southern 630 works up the grade as it departs East Chattanooga with the Missionary Ridge Local train. Southern Railway 630 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation type steam locomotive built in February 1904 by the American Locomotive Company, originally working the local and branch line service around Knoxville. Today, the steam engine pulls a passenger excursion steam train most weekends at the TVRM museum in Chattanooga, Tennes

Southern Railway 630: An Epic of Steam Engine Restoration