Scene from the "Great Locomotive Chase" A recreation featuring visiting locomotive 4-4-0 #63 - the Leviathan chasing backwards while 4-4-0 #17 - the York (not in view) does it's best to lead it's train to safety. Here the crowd has deboarded the train to watch the event unfold.
The event was put together by the folks at Steam Into History about a true event also known as Andrews' Raid. "After a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army, led by civilian scout James J. Andrews, commandeered a train and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Railroad (W&A) line from Atlanta to Chattanooga as they went. They were pursued by Confederate forces at first on foot, and later on a succession of locomotives." - via Wiki.
