The General (locomotive)

The General at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia, dressed in bunting beside its tender. Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor built this 4-4-0 American type for the Western and Atlantic Railroad in December 1855, using the wheel arrangement most railroads relied on at the time. On the morning of April 12, 1862, James J. Andrews and his Union raiders seized it and ran north until it gave out of fuel and water short of Chattanooga, the episode remembered as the Great Locomotive Chase. It will almost certainly never run again, so Kennesaw is where to see it.