The Marietta Daily Journal – Chatter Rep Ehrhart isn t derailed by comments from Reed staffer

Jenna Garland, Reed’s press secretary, emailed the MDJ to say the Texas deserved to be moved to the Atlanta History Center.

There is no better place for the Texas locomotive than the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta History Center,” Garland said. “With the relocation of the Cyclorama and the Texas locomotive from Grant Park to the Atlanta History Center, these iconic pieces of Atlanta’s history will have the restoration, facilities and audiences they deserve.”

Not so fast, said state Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs).

“She sounds a little bit like those Yankees did when they stole our train,” Ehrhart said. “She’s counting her trains before she gets them on the tracks. I think Cobb County and the Kennesaw Museum of Southern Locomotive History can make a really good case that Conductor William Fuller, if he was looking at this today, he’d be casting a gimlet eye on those folks across the river there. You know, he was the conductor on the Texas, chasing the boys up there, and he’d be looking back and saying ‘hmm.’ What did they call them back then? ‘Scallywags.’”

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Chatter Rep Ehrhart isn t derailed by comments from Reed staffer.