The Dummy makes its last run in 1918

The Dummy makes its last run in 1918

For three months a little locomotive nicknamed “The Dummy” chugged between Atlanta and Bloomburg, Texas, burning natural gas for fuel; the only vehicle of its kind to run on natural gas before or since-but the noble experiment failed. The Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana Railway had come into existence in 1897 to ...

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