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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4400042, member: 101855&quot;][ATTACH=full]1105990[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a note that the Western &amp; Atlantic Railroad issued during the Civil War. The most famous episode occurred when a group of Union spies, led by James Andrews, hijacked <i>The General</i> a locomotive at a place called Big Shanty and took it northward to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Their goal was to do as much damage to the railroad as they could.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Western &amp; Atlanta conductor, William Fuller, set off after them. He rode on a number of conveyances including a handcar and locomotive called <i>The Texas.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Everything went wrong for the Union spies. It was raining so they couldn’t set the tracks on fire. They didn’t have enough wood to fuel the engine even after the cut up the box cars. The spies were captured and either hanged or imprisoned.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a somewhat inaccurate version of the story presented on a Walt Disney movie in the 1950s. I have an article about this that I wrote some years ago that I could hunt up if there is interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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