Thursday, August 28, 2008

Choo Choo facelift


Click view video on Choo Choo facelift in time for CHS 50th Reunion.

CHOO-CHOO FACTS

Architect: Don Barber

Built: 1908

First train: 1909

Last train: 1970

Hotel opened: 1973

Chattanooga Choo-Choo: name given by a newspaper reporter to the wood-burning trains that traveled from Cincinnati to Chattanooga.

Song: Glenn Miller wrote the song with the same name in 1940. It first was performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1941.

Source: Chattanooga Choo-Choo

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