No better way to round out July than with a classic Chattanooga train ride! The Missionary Ridge Local will feature 112-year old steam star number 4501. This engine has lived a storied life and is living the best life here at TVRM – bringing an authentic train ride to life for each and every visitor….
Locomotive Restoration
Locomotive Restoration is an art form celebrated and embraced at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. With a dedicated team of skilled craftsmen, engineers, and historians, the museum is committed to preserving the legacy of railroading by restoring vintage locomotives to their original glory. Each project is a meticulous journey into the past, involving careful research, fabrication, and reconstruction of parts, all performed with the utmost authenticity and precision. The result is a living museum piece, a tangible link to history that can still thunder down the tracks, taking visitors on a nostalgic ride.
Locomotive Restoration at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is not only a tribute to the engineering marvels of the past but also a dynamic educational experience for visitors. The museum offers insights into the restoration process, showcasing the techniques, tools, and dedication required to bring these iron giants back to life. Workshops, guided tours, and behind-the-scenes looks at ongoing restoration projects enable visitors to appreciate the complexity and craftsmanship involved. Through these efforts, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum ensures that the story of American railroading continues to be told, engaging and inspiring future generations.
Breathing New Life into the F7A: Inside the Restoration of TVRM 576
Breathing New Life into the F7A: Inside the Restoration of TVRM 576 Last month, the workshops at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum buzzed with renewed energy as a brand new project chugged into its care – the recently acquired F7A, christened TVRM 576. This locomotive, a vestige of rail history and engineering prowess, has now embarked…
September 30, 2023
TVRM’s 1980s Throwback: 45 Years of Locomotives 630 & 610!
A Nostalgic Ride Back to 1980 at TVRM: Celebrating 45 Years of 630 & USA 610! As dawn breaks tomorrow, visitors to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) will find themselves on a remarkable journey back in time. While every day at TVRM offers a peek into railroad history, tomorrow promises an especially nostalgic trip….
September 9, 2023
A Final Glance
I think we all know the feeling. You pause for a moment looking back towards a house or an apartment, a surround of land or the last vestige of a city’s skyline. It is always a very particular place, a very precise moment. You take things in, a slow deep inhaling of memories, a desire to capture and hold close what had earlier captured and held you. You are moving now through a type of liminal space that has not been clearly sorted into a before or after, here or there, like the transitional marshes that soften where the worlds of land and waterways meet. It’s that seemingly slow final glance before you turn away. And then, just like that, you step across.
This is where I find myself as I retire from an almost twenty-year career here at Golden Artist Colors. During this time I have written just under forty articles for Just Paint, the first one published in 2004, and my last two in December of 2021. And while I have had the pleasure to work on innumerable projects, and play a multitude of roles, it is writing for Just Paint that I have loved most and felt closest to, besides the team of people that have made all of this possible. They are the ones that my last glance is focused on. As well as you – those readers who come back again and again with your curiosity and questions, your desires to expand what you know and what you can accomplish. It’s my conversations with all of you that constantly challenged me to learn more. What an honor to be a part of those creative journeys. And so, for this wonderful newsletter, for you and for everyone at GOLDEN, my deepest gratitude. What a precious world to look back on and take in.
About Sarah Sands
Sarah Sands, Senior Technical Specialist, MFA Yale University. Prior to Golden: Instructor, NY Academy of Art; Associate Professor of Painting, Indiana University; Business Manager/Technical Specialist, Williamsburg Oils
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