Historical Marker
The Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Historical marker location:
1400 Market Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Market Street (Tennessee Route 8) north of East 14th Street, on the left when traveling south.)
The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.