Pardon Me Sir, Is That The Chattanooga Choo Choo…hotel?
The arty, historic town of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a tourist destibation, especially for guests of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel. Tourists from all over the worlds come to see the former train station that celebrates its centennial this year. Its a song, its a hotel, its a destination and its on the National Register of Historic Hotels. It also, like the entire town, welcomes every convention that comes to town with several hospitable signs. In the 1880s the Chattanooga train operated on the Tennessee Railroad, and starting in 1909., steamed out of the station on Market Street in downtown Chattanooga, until the station closed for good in 1973. Now those Victorian-era train cars flank the hotels famous Rose Garden, which tourists stroll through as they step down from their unique guest rooms aboard those same train cars. Sleeping in a train car provides a glimpse into an earlier era. The train cars still have the original ceilings, although the furniture has definitely changed sinc
