The Yonah (locomotive)

Yonah was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1848 by Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor at Paterson, New Jersey, for the Western and Atlantic Railroad of Georgia, which bought it as its third 4-4-0. It is thought to have worked as a construction engine while the line was built from Atlanta to Chattanooga, and may have been the first engine to reach Chattanooga. An early 4-4-0 with a haycock firebox and closely spaced pilot wheels, it was probably moved to yard work by the late 1850s as larger engines such as the General and the Texas arrived. In the Great Locomotive Chase of April 1862 it was leased to the Cooper Iron Works and stood under full steam at Etowah when the raiders passed through in the General. Conductor William Allen Fuller took it and drove it north for about fifteen miles to Kingston, where he continued on another engine. After the war it is believed to have been turned into a stationary boiler for the railroad shops, and the January 1873 roster listed it as condemned.