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Year 2003 in Review
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Steve Freer
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<< #610 is shown in operation during April.

The little blue engine >> made another appearance in May.  Nearly 20,000 visitors were carried in two weekends!
<< USA #611 had its #4 driver dropped for box removal.  GSMR needed a pattern for their #1702.

#630 is shown sans >> smokebox. Restoration continues slowly but surely.
<< #610 rolls onto the Summerville turntable on May 31 for its very first spin.

The first rotation is >> complete.  Time to head for Chattanooga.
<< Here we see #610 crossing the Chattooga River in Trion during the "Steam All The Way" trip on June 14.  Wait a minute...she's head-first to Chattanooga!!! 

Approaching the turntable. >>
<< "Blasting" through Fairview, Georgia on Saturday, November 1 on the last weekend of Autumn Leaf Specials.  A total of 8 sold out trips ran in Oct & Nov.
The Chickamauga >> Depot now sports a "tower" which is historically-accurate.  The building serves as the Walker Co. Regional History Museum
Conductor Alan  >> Walker has written "Railroads of Chattanooga" which has been published by Arcadia Publishing.  The book is available in the TVRM gift shop.