Photos: Railcar weighing over 100 tons lifted onto tracks
January 16, 2020 at 11:30 a.m.
| Updated January 17, 2020 at 11:22 a.m.
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Staff photos by Robin Rudd
Staff Photo by Robin Rudd/ Crews discuss placing the trucks, the name used for a assembly of wheels for a rail car, on the tracks at a siding along Holtzclaw Avenue. Crews from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and B&B Crane Rental moved the recently acquired office car former Norfolk Southern 8/Southern Railway 5 to it's new home at the museum. Originally built as the Ґoint RichmondӠby Pullman in May of 1926 it was converted to an office car at Southern Railwayճ Hayne Shops in 1956. It was purchased by TVRM from a private owner and it will be returning to TVRM. The car weighs in at over 100 tons.
Crews from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and B&B Crane Rental moved the recently acquired office car from Norfolk Southern 8/Southern Railway 5 to its new home at the museum.
Originally built as the "Point Richmond" by Pullman in May of 1926, it was converted to an office car at Southern Railway's Hayne Shops in 1956. It was purchased by TVRM from a private owner and it will be returning to TVRM.
