Great Locomotive Chase Depot for Sale

Posted in Memory by Andy Hall on August 29, 2018

The 1852 Western & Atlantic Depot in Dalton, Georgia is looking for a buyer. Priced to move at $500K, OBO.

I got a birthday comin’ up, just sayin’.

_______

Subscribe to comments with RSS.

OhioGuy said, on August 30, 2018 at 12:11 am

Finally, you post a story with an Ohio angle! 😉

Reply
Marcia Mason said, on August 30, 2018 at 12:16 am

Nacogdoches has a nicely restored one in town, and a deteriorating one on the south side I wish someone would buy from whoever owns it and get it back up to style. I just love that architecture.

Reply
Mike Musick said, on August 30, 2018 at 9:19 pm

I have fond recollections of watching Walt Disney’s “The Great Locomotive Chase” back in the 1950s on our little black and white TV. One of the great moments was when Fess Parker, as the incognito raider James J. Andrews, is confronted on the train by a magnificently menacing Confederate soldier. The Reb sees Andrews’s pistol, and snarls “Yankee Army issue! Whar’d you git it?” Of course Andrews/Parker deftly allays all suspicions. Many wonderfully hair-raising scenes ensue.

Reply
- Andy Hall said, on August 30, 2018 at 9:54 pm
  
  Glad to see you ’round these parts, Mike.
  
  Reply
  - Mike Musick said, on August 31, 2018 at 7:01 pm
    
    Thanks, Andy. By the way, I noted today that a Dead Confederates blog post of June 21, 2011 (“‘The War of Northern Aggression’ as Modern Segregationist Revisionism”) is cited in note 24 of Prof. Gaines M. Foster’s article “What’s Not in a Name: The Naming of the American Civil War” in The Journal of the Civil War Era, September 2018. Pretty cool!
    
    Reply