When the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway leased the Western & Atlantic Railroad in 1890, the railroad took possession of the General locomotive.
In many ways, the famed steamer assumed the role of the Western & Atlantic's public face, which the locomotive still holds to some degree today.
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