Southern Railway 2-8-0 154 was built in 1890 by Schenectady Locomotive Works for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway as ETV&G 466. Four years later, that railroad merged with the Richmond and Danville Railroad to form the Southern Railway and 466 was renumbered to SOU 154 where she worked out of Knoxville for much of her career. Though she was leased out to Gloucester Lumber Company in Asheville in 1946 before returning to Knoxville to work as a yard switcher at City Yard. Upon her retirement in 1953, she was given to the City of Knoxville to be on display at Chilhowee Park.
When Knoxville was awarded the World Fair in 1982, Southern Railway gave consideration to returning the locomotive to operating condition to run passenger excursions, but ultimately decided against doing so. The 154 was then donated to the Old Smoky Railway Museum which in turn donated the locomotive to Gulf & Ohio Railways in August 2008. The City of Knoxville and Old Smoky Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society restored her to operating condition and she now runs on the G&O's Knoxville & Holston River where she is the oldest operating Southern Railway steam locomotive in the world.
