The Clinchfield No. 1: Tennessee's Legendary Steam Engine

by Mark Stevens and Alf Peoples

Book Overview

As general manager for Erwin, Tennessee-based Clinchfield Railroad, Thomas D. Moore found an eighty-six-year-old vintage 4-6-0 ten-wheeler steam engine--the Clinchfield No. 1. Miraculously, the engine had escaped the cutter's torch when, in the mid-1950s, the railroad retired its steam fleet, shuttered passenger service and embraced the diesel era. Moore wanted the No. 1 fully restored and its long life on the rails--which had included being the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162619596X
• ISBN13: 9781626195967
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"