Announced today, a new 501c(3) not-for-profit, the Nashville Steam Preservation Society, is seeking a lease with Metro Nashville Parks to rebuild former Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway steam locomotive number 576 to operation and run it on the Nashville & Eastern Railroad in connection with the Tennessee Central Railway Museum.
NSPS President, Shane Meador (right) is shown here walking around the locomotive with welder Steve Morgan. Meador served as Project Manager on the rebuilding of Southern 630 and 4501, and is joined at NSPS by a team of preservationists, business people, and steam mechanics.Learn more on the NSPS website
Not only known as Music City, USA, Nashville served as a major junction for the Louisville and Nashville, Tennessee Central, and Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis as well as through service for a host of other railroads.
