Ah, the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn. Ain’t no one askin’, “Pardon me boys, but is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo,” anymore. The irony, of course, is that even “the L&N don’t run here anymore.” Nor does the Southern Railway. And even though you’re sitting inside an opulent, if midsized, passenger station, you have to travel a hundreds miles by other means to catch the nearest Amtrak passenger train in Gainesville, Georgia. But hey, if it wasn’t for the near-demise of passenger rail in the Twentieth Century, it wouldn’t be possible in the Twenty First Century to sleep in passenger car cum hotel room in the switching yard of a defunct passenger station converted into a hotel. A plaque remains on the receiving side of the old Chattanooga passenger station, explaining the historical significance of Chattanooga
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