Pulling into Summerville
At about 20 minutes past 1PM, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Summerville Special arrives at the depot in its namesake town of Summerville, GA. Since these trips don't happen every day, the arrival of these trains is a bit of a special event for locals and railfans, who often gather at the depot and in the park behind me, where the big turntable sits. On this day, there's just a single locomotive to be turned, that being Southern Railway Mikado #4501. A couple of times a year, the TVRM will double head these trains, adding Southern Railway Consolidation #630 to the power train, making the event a bit more spectacular and adding some complexity to the turning operations here in Summerville. The train typically lays over here for about an hour, giving patrons time to either watch the turning operations, grab a little lunch, or take a walk around town.
Pulling into Summerville
At about 20 minutes past 1PM, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's Summerville Special arrives at the depot in its namesake town of Summerville, GA. Since these trips don't happen every day, the arrival of these trains is a bit of a special event for locals and railfans, who often gather at the depot and in the park behind me, where the big turntable sits. On this day, there's just a single locomotive to be turned, that being Southern Railway Mikado #4501. A couple of times a year, the TVRM will double head these trains, adding Southern Railway Consolidation #630 to the power train, making the event a bit more spectacular and adding some complexity to the turning operations here in Summerville. The train typically lays over here for about an hour, giving patrons time to either watch the turning operations, grab a little lunch, or take a walk around town.