Thanks Warren,? I spent 19 years working for Sears. The model is to pay tribute to those years. Here is a photo of a delivery truck I did to go along with the late 60's era store.

Mark

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Warren,

It took some time to detail what I can of the route up the ridge and south toward Rossville. The line ended at station "Ridge" that was roughly above 34th St. in East Lake. The map I used is a 1941 map of Chattanooga that I added some points to tie into 2020..

Enjoy. If anyone has questions. I am glad to try and answer...

Mark

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A few years before he passed away, Bob Sironen showed me some of the street car right of way up in Missionary Ridge. I was tired after driving up to see Bob after a shift at the Atlanta airport where I work and was not “crisp” enough to remember the street name. I’ll be in the area soon and want to poke around and find it again. Does anyone know the streets where you can spot the right of way. I vaguely remember seeing a cannon and at one point the right of way cut across someone’s yard at an angle.

Warren

I can’t say for certain but it has been reported on other yahoo groups that 15 December yahoo is killing all groups. As moderator of the TAG yahoo group I have received no official notice as I did when they shut the files section down last year. I suspect this is accurate information though. If you have not become a member over at TAG groups io you may want to consider doing so just in case. Meanwhile let’s keep posting to both groups till yahoo group dies. I hope someone is planning on making a group io page for the Central of Georgia otherwise CofG fans will loose the ability to connect.

Warren

I finally was able to confirm the date David Hedges the president of TAG unexpectedly passed away. 15 Dec. 1964, and he is not buried on Signal Mountain as I assumed but is buried on the north side of the river near Hixson. His death certificate says under occupation president and under kind of business railroad. He did indeed have a sudden heart attack as related to me by former TAG folks. You will never see a man start right out of high school and rise to the top job in this day and time.

Warren

If your having trouble finding the Trains with the TAG 80 cover and article then may I suggest Walmart. I had looked at two Books-A-million and a Barnes & Nobel before happening upon a copy while in my local Walmart. The modern pictures are fantastic. The accuracy of the history/geography of TAG presented in the article was disappointing. One other thing that really bothers me is they used a picture I had printed on my home computer of the engine in Southern tuxedo. I believe I brought it with me when they dedicate the engine. They credited the wrong photographer and it was reproduced in the magazine at a much lower quality than the original Kodachrome slide which resides in my collection. I would have been happy to send the original slide to Milwaukee so the Trains art department could scan it for publication. I had thought about writing to Trains and giving them the true photographer’s name but I have decided not to. The modern pictures - including the cover - are beautiful as I have said and worth the price of the magazine.

Warren

This was shared with me by recently retired NS engineer Tom Holley. At one time I had this footage. Or at least part of it. I loaned it to a friend and a coworker stole it from him and I never got it back. This rat coworker also took some TAG diesel footage I loaned my friend and put it on YouTube without giving me credit. I paid almost $60.00 to get it converted from reel film and this rat can’t even ask if I minded. If he had I would have said sure. Sad thing is this particular fellow was reared by two lifelong members of the Salvation Army. You think he would be a more upright man with that sort of parents. He also stole footage of the CofG coming through Lyerly, GA which is where my dad grew up. This bum took it and it was like a time machine for my dad because it showed where he grew up. At any rate, some of this footage is northbound and some southbound but it is presented as being southbound only. As far as I can tell, we first see the TAG motorcar on the Chattanooga Belt Railway above the state line. A far different St. Elmo than exists today. Note the stacks of hay. You can tell it’s north of the state line because the Belt tracks were not as well maintained as TAG mainline. Also the orientation of the classic profile of Lookout Mountain. The trip through the tunnel is actually northbound as is the shot of the yellow river trestle and the through truss trestle at little river. Isn’t it strange how narrow the yellow river trestle looks when you are headed directly away from it. Note when they break through the tunnel that there is a water tank on the left and a train order office on the right. If you don’t blink you can spot the TAG train order lantern. Instead of semaphores, the TAG once used Northeastern style train order lamps that had wings like a switch stand. Also in the shot of the busy street in Gadsden note the team of horses coming toward the camera. I would guess this was filmed about 1946-50. What I had did not have the trip through the tunnel but it had a still shot of the motorcar parked at Gadsden and it included coming into the Gadsden yard and passing a freight train about to depart for Chattanooga. There was also a shot of TAG steam engines parked in the yard at Alton Park. Any thoughts or observations? Many thanks to Tom for forwarding this.

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