Aside from the extravagance of the refrigerator car, this consist echoes the one seen in the following photo, which is posted in a display in X-3 - the surviving TFRR caboose that is currently located in the town of Tallulah Falls. The same photo can be found in Brian Boyd's Tallulah Falls Railroad A Photographic Remembrance, where he designates it as 1930's era and notes its anemic size as compared with the earlier years.
Passenger traffic on the TFRR was at its acme in the 1910's prior to the decline in tourists that came with the damming of Tallulah Gorge. By the 1930's the TFRR was running on nothing but rattle and fuzz.
The displays in X-3 are thoughtfully assembled and include a couple of TFRR photographs I had not seen previously. Stop by and check it out when you are passing through!
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