One of the city’s longest-running attractions, the Cyclorama painting, is being readied for the public at the Atlanta History Center. And while the enormous painting and diorama are being installed for an opening in early 2019, its longtime roommate, The Texas locomotive, is now on display in the Atlanta History Center.
One of the remarkable things about this new exhibit of this very old locomotive is that you don’t even have to go inside the Atlanta History Center to see it. The history center’s president and CEO Sheffield Hale made sure of that.
“When they put it in here, I said, ‘I want you to be able to see it from West Paces Ferry,’” Hale says. “And you can, for free, 24 hours a day.”
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