CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A $6 million railroad project in Chattanooga for the new Volkswagen plant and suppliers at the Enterprise South industrial Park will be funded partly with federal stimulus funds.  The project set to start in August will help Volkswagen deliver cars when production starts in early 2011. – Chuck Hinrichs

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum – Chattanooga, TN – a collection of historic photographs by noted commercial and industrial photographer O. Winston Link will be shown in a newly-created display gallery at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s Grand Junction Station from August 22 through November 1. The exhibit Steam, Fading into the Night includes fine-art photographs documenting the last great steam locomotives used by the Norfolk & Western Railway in Virginia during the 1950’s. Link captured the sights and sounds of the powerful locomotives and the communities along the line. The majority of Link’s photographs were recorded in the dark of night using a complex system with dozens of flashbulbs triggered by a custom-built electric unit connected with hundreds of feet of wire.  – TVRM Website

Note: anyone interested in a day-trip to see this exhibit, contact John Licht, madrrterminal@yahoo.com.

Hardin, KY – Just to let you all know that the former NC/L&N track operated by the Hardin Southern RR between Hardin KY and North Murray KY is being taken up and scrapped starting Monday 8/3/09 by A&K materials. They are starting at Hardin and moving South to just north of the former Webasto spur. This brings a sad close to the HSRR fiasco.

-Submitted by Chuck Hinrichs with permission to print email message from Steve Wilhelm.