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"Crew Change"

Railroad Artist
Tom Rock

CREW CHANGE
Copyright (c) 1990, T.D.R.
Productions
Sheet: 18" x 27" / Image: 14" x 24"

With her relief valve hailing the heavens, Ps-4 No.
1400 leads train No. 26, the "Memphis Special" into
Southern Railway's Cleveland, Tennessee depot.
Ms-4 No. 4880 bound for Cohutta, Georgia looks on
as the Tennessee and Georgia crews change, in this
tranquil scene of days gone by.

In 1852, the Chattanooga, Harrison, Georgetown and
Charleston Railroad Company was given permission
to extend its connection from Chattanooga to
Charleston in Bradley County, Tennessee. In 1854,
the charter of this line was added to the East
Tennessee and George Railroad, and by 1858 the
line was completed and in operation through
Cleveland. Bradley Counties' economic fortunes
were heightened considerably with the completion
of this line, and the line from Dalton, Georgia to
Knoxville.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the fact that
Cleveland was important to the national war effort
was made evident by the telegram sent by President
Lincoln to General Henry W. Halleck on June 30,
1862: "To take and hold the railroad at or east of
Cleveland, Tennessee, I think is as fully as important
as the taking and holding of Richmond."

The fall of 1869 saw the East Tennessee and Georgia
Railroad merging with the East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad until July 7, 1894 when these two
railroads were absorbed by the Southern Railway
System. With passenger and freight traffic through
Cleveland and Bradley County on the rise, the
decision was made that a larger depot at Cleveland
would definitely have to be constructed.

On September 8, 1910, Division Superintendent R.E.
Simpson made the announcement in Knoxville to
Agent H.L. Davis, that the Southern Railway would
be building a fine passenger station in the city within
the next 6 months. In the spring of 1911 the depot in
Cleveland was officially opened.