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Diesel Switching Locomotives

A Historic Return: WWII Diesel Locomotive Model S2 #7100 Comes Home to Chattanooga at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

History coming home: At the beginning of World War II, the US Army ordered a fleet of diesel-switching locomotives from the American Locomotive Co (Alco). In September 1943, Alco delivered model S2 #7100 for service at the recently opened Volunteer Ordinance Works in Chattanooga, now home to the Volkswagen auto plant and TVRM’s Tyner Terminal…