Is that the Engineer?

No. That isn't the engineer standing on the front of the locomotive. That is Buster Keaton staring in the film "The Great Locomotive Chase" This must be a promotional shot that was then made into a post card by the National Railroad Historical Society. On January 12, 2022, I wrote a post about the locomotive pictured on the front of this post card – with out Buster Keaton standing on the pilot/cow catcher. The General was used to in Andrew’s Raild during the American Civil War. The next week, January 19, 2022, I wrote the blog about the locomotive that was used to chase (and eventually catch) the raiding party of Union Soldiers. The picture on the front of this post card is promoting the Walt Disney movie “The Great Locomotive Chase”, which was filmed at Clayton, Georgia on the Talullah Falls Railroad. Today I will write about the publisher of this post card: The National Railroad Historical Society chapter in Georgia. The Atlanta Chapter, NRHS, owns the Southeastern Railway Museum Located at 3595 Buford Highway in Duluth Depot. This 35 acre, mostly volunteer operated Museum, houses about 90 items of rolling stock, the restored circa 1871 Duluth Depot, a park train and many small artifacts.

A demonstration train ride featuring vintage diesels and cabooses is offered. Programs at monthly meetings include speakers, A/V presentations and occasional field trips. The Atlanta Chapter is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization which celebrated its 50th anniversary in March 2009. And a bit about the parent organization. The information is taken from this part of their website: https://nrhs.com/about-us/ The NRHS was founded in 1935 by a group of rail historians. It has since grown from 40 founding members to include over 13,000 men and women of all ages and professions in every state and many foreign countries, making it the nation’s largest rail preservation and historical society. The original society was formed as a consolidation of two of the earliest railfan clubs in the US, the Lancaster (PA) Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and the Interstate Trolley Club of Trenton NJ. The official goal of the new society: “to preserve steam and electric railway historical material; to encourage the building of model railways; to secure data on the history of transportation; and to encourage rail transportation.”