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During the Civil War, locomotives normally operating south of the Potomac River were moved by the Union to Washington, D. C., to prevent their falling into enemy hands. The wood-bumers were choice targets of raiding Confederate soldiers. This picture, made in 1863, shows tracks running almost to the Capitol grounds.

Southern's streamlined steam locomotive No. 1380 had the distinction of being the only one of its kind to operate over our railway. The bullet-Iike engine pulled "The Tennessean" between Washington, D. C., and Monroe, Va., from 1941 until diesel-electrics took over in 1946. It was finally scrapped in August, 1953.

During the Civil War, locomotives normally operating south of the Potomac River were moved by the Union to Washington, D. C., to prevent their falling into enemy hands. The wood-bumers were choice targets of raiding Confederate soldiers. This picture, made in 1863, shows tracks running almost to the Capitol grounds.
Southern's streamlined steam locomotive No. 1380 had the distinction of being the only one of its kind to operate over our railway. The bullet-Iike engine pulled "The Tennessean" between Washington, D. C., and Monroe, Va., from 1941 until diesel-electrics took over in 1946. It was finally scrapped in August, 1953.