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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
