Southern Railway Train Returns As Green. 😀😂🥰😍🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚇🚈🚉🛣🛤

The recording has started. Well now, always remember Super Dave Bistula, the tall, white, gothic, vampire alien. Coming to you from Tim Hortons, the same spot as usual, the one in the St. Dorothy Mall. You know the ones, Benny and Company, and the other ones on one side, Sports Experts, and Atmosphere on the other. Here in the area of St. Dorothy, Laval, Super Dave Bistula of Chamonix, Laval, Quebec, Canada. So, seems to me that train number 4501 in Tennessee is returning. Now, I would say we're touching on this subject because my digital host David has always been fascinated by, well, choo-choo trains. Choo-choo. And I found them interesting as well. Well, this is something new that we're not only talking about technical stuff like computers or space, now we're talking about trains. The old trains, the old steam locomotive that was around since the 1960s is returning back for maybe a sort of trial run, no, not trial run, kind of a remembrance run or something, something of that nature. It was my host, my digital host David, whoops, my digital host David is going to take over and he's going to read the article from trains. It's trains.com. It's kind of a cute little story. It's a little different from what we usually do. Anyways, so, David? Yeah, when it comes to trains, I'm a bit of a baby because I remember I used to, not only did I get racing sets every year, I used to get train sets every year. Choo-choo-choo. But I could never get it as big as some of these train sets that I've seen. And some of these take up a whole room. And then again, you have to have a lot of money now for those things, for the train, for the electrical trains and the cars. But it's fascinating to watch. Anyways, without further ado, I'm going to reduce myself to a little blip and read from the train's website. Here goes nothing. So we just get rid of a few notifications while we're at it. Menu, camera, right there. Make ourselves a little bigger. Okay, this is, the only problem is this site can be annoying with its pop-ups. Okay, trains. Southern Railway, numbered 4501, returns in classic green. Updated. Okay, Bob Leffenberger. February 2nd, 2026. Last updated, February 3rd, 2026. Okay, no time written on it. Okay, Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum announces construction of a new finishing facility. Is that part of the story or not? Southern Railway, numbered 4501. Maybe this is going to be one of the pictures of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. The collection will be emerged from its annual inspection wearing the classic green paint seen here. I can see the boxcars and I think the coal car is green. The locomotive will wear the iconic Southern Railway scheme during 2026 and then will be returned to Black Point. Here the famous locomotive leads an excursion past Orange, Virginia on May 19th and 19th Let's read on. Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum announced that former Southern Railway, numbered 4501, will return from its annual inspection wearing the Railroad's classic passenger green paint scheme. The locomotive will appear as it entered excursion service 60 years ago in 1966. Okay, like I said, it was in the 1960s. In a year, we're celebrating the museum's 65th anniversary and the locomotive's 105th birthday. It feels only right though for her to come back to the Southern Railway passenger livery for a limited celebratory season, said Penelope Soule, Galt TBRM spokeswoman. Built in October 1911, 282, number 4501, was the first of the 182 M-Class Mikados in the Southern Railway fleet. While all three locomotive builders, Alco, Baldwin, and Lima, contributed to the orders, number 4501 came from Baldwin Locomotive Works with builders numbering 37,085. Initially a freight hauler working in East Tennessee, Central Kentucky, and eventually Southern Indiana, the locomotive found its way to the Kentucky and Tennessee Railway in 1948. Fortunes changed for number 4501 in 1961 when TBRM founders, Robert Soule and Paul Merriman, acquired it for the new museum. The locomotive led excursion trains both at the museum and for the later Norfolk Southern Railway's steam excursion program. It was retired in 1998, only to be restored between 2011 and 2014 to work as part of a Norfolk Southern 21st Century steam excursion program, meaning it's going to be on display as a museum piece, doing a few certain things, but in celebration, because today's train yards, they run on the diesel locomotive, which is still good. Number 4501 paint project has been made possible by a led contribution from model railroad equipment producers, Scale Trains of Cleveland, Tennessee painting from number 4501 into Southern Green, then returning it back to basic black scheme, estimated to cost $30,000. Yeah, I'm not surprised. Actually, I'm surprised it doesn't cost more. We're talking about a train, because to paint a car is damn ******* expensive too. It could cost up to $5,000, depending on how good of a paint job you want. The museum notes the locomotive will return to its traditional black paint in 2027. Okay, why not keep it green? It'll be more interesting. Additionally, TVRM announced a fundraising effort to construct a dedicated finishing facility where restoration projects can be completed in a controlled environment. It would be nice to visit Tennessee and see that. I'm wondering, but they probably have something here in Canada too, most likely, I hope. I hope they have it here in Montreal. Anyways, let's continue. The new building will be placed next to the museum's main shop in East Chattanooga. The new facility will measure 40 feet wide, 100 feet long, with a 24 foot height. The estimated cost is $125,000 only. Forget train sets themselves, the toys are pretty pricey too. Maybe go up to maybe $50,000. I don't know. Depends. The whole thing as is. Once a collector does a hobby like that. Anyways, let's continue. It will be climate controlled, permitting an increased annual throughput of projects with enhanced quality. The construction timeline is yet to be set and is dependent on fundraising. Let's see if they'll get that fundraising. For more information on the Tennessee Railroad Museum, please visit its website. Here's another picture. No, that's it. Time to take my glasses off. We'll close that. Close this. There you have it in a nutshell. Okay, they're gonna have a display kind of setting. Maybe transport a few things. But it's mostly for show. Because steam locomotives are not used anymore. You've got diesel locomotives with the newest features. And sometimes they're replaced by, these railroads are replaced by, or trains are replaced by more type of electrical trains. But not always. You still need that gas, the diesel gas, to chug it along. As I told you, I don't believe in fully electrical cars. But it's interesting. It fills up the kitty. Anyways, that's it. Anyway, super day. Conclude. Close it off. Oh, and uh... That's right. It's fun to read. Nice little article. Being displayed. Being taken on the tracks once again. For people to see. What more can I say? We might do more articles about trains later on. But we're gonna have to see about that. But we'll put the link in the description below. As usual. Anyways, at this point I'll bid you adieu. Au revoir. Adios. Hasta mañana. Hasta luego. Arribarderci. Whoops. Arribarderci. Shalom. Salaam alaikum. Sayonara. Dosvidanya. Auf Wiedersehen. Yassas. Parevces. Goodbye. Also merci beaucoup. Muchos gracias. Molti, mucho grazie. Tudaraba. Shukriya. Shukran. Sheshe. Spasiba. Dankeshen. Evhaistopoli. Chachorragalem. Remember, it's a choo-choo. I wish I could hold a train set trains. Just to give you an example. But maybe next time. Anyways, now the only thing to say is, thank you very much.