Maud

Tallulah, better known as "Old Maud" is a former Southern Railway switcher that used to work with Tom, Dick, and Harry when they used to be station pilots at Chattanooga Terminal Station.   Maud  
 * Full Name: Tallulah
 * Builder: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA.
 * Build date: 1880
 * Serial Number: 4160
 * Locomotive Class: Southern Railway A class switcher
 * Configuration: 0-4-4T Forney (currently)
 * Tractive Effort: 14,688 lbs.
 * Previous Owner(s) and Number(s): Southern Railway #1509
 * Track Gauge: Standard, 4' 8 1/2" inches
 * Retired: 1950
 * Status: Awaiting Restoration at the Southeastern Railway Museum.
 * Traffic: Switching
 * Age: 140

Biography
Tallulah is the oldest surviving Southern Railway steam locomotive. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1880 for the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railroad, Tallulah worked on the line as their #27 until it was absorbed by the Southern Railway in 1894. By 1910, she was working in Atlanta as a shop goat.

In May 1914, she was loaned out to Chattanooga to teach a trio of freshly built class A-7 switchers named Tom, Dick, and Harry.

In 1925, the Southern Railway overhauled Tallulah and she gained the nickname "Old Maud" by the shop workers. Despite the nickname, "Maud" continued to work for the Southern until she was retired from service in 1949, completing nearly 70 years of service. She was then moved to Inman, Georgia, and straight onto the deadline to awaiting the scrapper's torch. However, the shop's workers had favored Maud and wrote to current Southern Railway president E. E. Norris requesting the engine be preserved. Norris obliged, and Maud was placed on display outside of the shops.

In 1960, Maud was donated to the Atlanta chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, who had placed it in the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia where she awaits restoration today.

Appearances
Maud appeared in the first chapter of Book 5, where she taught the Chattanooga Triplets about the ins and outs of switching.

Trivia

 * Old Maud is indeed a real locomotive. She is currently on display at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia.