Coming around the curve is the loaded southbound CSX N290-06 (Madisonville,KY-Stilesboro,GA) on the final few miles of the CSX Chattanooga Sub before starting on the W&A Sub at 23rd St. This location was at one time the heart, and soul of Chattanooga Industrial, and it was the location for plant like Wheland Foundry, Conbustion, and U.S. Pipe in the mid 1900s, also before the was CSX, and L&N making their present known in Chattanooga the N.C.& St.L had a large yard here which included a round house, The Dixie Line, along with the Tennessee Alabama & Georgia Railroad served this massive industrial complex. Yes this was a booming location for almost a century til things was change. toward the late 1950s and early 1906s Interstate 24 was being built along the riverfront of this complex which would have took up part of the N.C & St.L. now L&N Cravens Yard, so the L&N built a new yard which is know today as Wauhachie. Toward the end of the 90s and early 2000s Wheland Foundry finally close their doors, and not too far behind U.S. Pipe shut the Chattanooga plant down as well. So today what was once of the busiest Industrial Complex in the south known as the Dynamo of Dixie cease to exist.
