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If there's one thing we know how to do in Nashville, it's throw a party! Join Music City stars and our friends Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, Jeff Hanna and Jimmi Fadden of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Riders In The Sky in wishing Nashville's steam locomotive No. 576 a Happy 80th Birthday! Learn more about the new 80 for 80 Campaign at the link: bit.ly/3K9PH8b
Marty Stuart and Harry Stinson Music offer their reflections and celebrate with a tune on the 80th birthday of Nashville's legendary steam locomotive, No. 576. You can help us get 576 back in steam at the link: nashvillesteam.org/donate/
In desperate need of new, modern motive power, C.M. Darden, Superintendent of Mechanics for the NC&StL Railway, and his team spent months designing and drafting a new class of steam locomotive at their offices in downtown Nashville. They placed their order for the new engines with the American Locomotive Company, who Darden had worked for as a draftsman early in his career. Another year of final design and construction led to the first 10 J-3 Class locomotives, Nos. 570-579, rolling out of ALCO's Schenectady plant in August of 1942. ![]()
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No. 579 is seen here in a company builder's photo looking brand new without a speck of dirt. Soon it will head south to Nashville to begin revenue service. The broad yellow striping running down the length of the locomotive led the crews to christen these engines as "Yellow Jackets." #80for80
