There’s nothing quite like Southern Railway steam and that’s why Delay In Block Productions paid the Three Rivers Rambler excursion train a visit in Knoxville, Tennessee. The date is December 15th, 2018 and the “mighty-fine” steam team of the Gulf & Ohio Railway were preparing for three Saturday trips over the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad. Southern Railway no. 154, the locomotive in charge of today’s Christmas Lantern Express, is a 2-8-0 “Consolidation” type steam locomotive that was originally built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1890 for the East Tennessee, Virginia, & Georgia Railway. Today, the nearly 130-year-old tea kettle would have to battle wet rail and steep grades while pulling the Christmas Lantern Express to Strawberry Plains.
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