Locomotive 5288 soon leaving Chattanooga

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — One Historic Locomotive will soon leave the Tennessee Valley.

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum announced locomotive 5288 is going back home to Pennsylvania.

The locomotive is scheduled to leave Chattanooga in a few weeks.

It will be displayed later this year near the Boyertown Pennsylvania station.

Locomotive 5288 is currently being prepped in East Chattanooga.

The train was apart of Steamtown Foundation in 1969 before coming to Chattanooga in 2001.