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The Polk Street Cannonball: TVRM's "Dinner on the Diner"

On October 1, 2022, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum operated one of its iconic dinner trains for attendees of the joint convention of the Southern Railway Historical Association and the Louisville and Nashville Historical Society. Power for the train was the museum's two GP38 series locomotives, ex. Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway GP38 No. 80 and ex. Southern Railway GP38-2 No. 5000. The train operated with six cars instead of the usual four. This special trip included the addition of Southern Railway dining car No. 3164 (Pullman, 1924), which is about as close as one can get to a museum quality Southern Railway dining car that is in active service. Also included was Louisville & Nashville dining car No. 2728, the "Cross Keys Tavern" (ACF, 1930), making its first trip since September, 2019. For the return trip from Polk Street, the two locomotives were MU'd (Multiple Unit cabled together). With the 5000 in the lead, the train headed east up the old Belt Line, and then gave us quite the show as the climbed the grade at East Chattanooga. For those wondering, there is a bit of irony in the name "Polk Street Cannonball". That name was coined by TVRM employee Andrew Durden as a means of poking fun at the slow speed that the dinner train has to operate at in order to give the patrons ample time to enjoy their meal on their ride through urban Chattanooga.