Chattanooga, Tennessee (April 2016)

Chattanooga, Tennessee Cover page.	Going up the Incline Railway to Lookout Mountain.	It is very steep (and scary) going up in the train!	Once we got to the top, we walked to Sunset Rock, which has a magnificent view.
Map of Sunset Rock and vicinity.	Sign telling some of the Civil War history of Sunset Rock.	I made a panoramic photo of 4 photos combined to show the view.	View of the Incline Railway coming up the mountain.
The Incline Railway was getting closer.	The train arriving at the summit.	On the third day of my visit, we went to Chattanooga to Coolidge Park.	Kids playing on statues at Coolidge Park. It was named after a war hero, not Calvin Coolidge.
View of the Chattanooga Market Street Bridge, is a drawbridge which crosses the Tennessee River..	The Walnut Street Bridge was the first to connect Chattanooga, Tennessee's downtown with the North Shore.	View across the river of Chattanooga's Hunter Museum and Gallery of Art.	Crossing on foot the Walnut Street Bridge, which is now a pedestrian bridge.
View from the Walnut Street Bridge of Coolidge Park.	We had a great view.	Looking down at Coolidge Park from the bridge.	More views of Coolidge Park.
View from the other side of the Tennessee River of a path leading up to the Hunter Museum of Art.	The modern wing was designed by Randall Stout and completed in 2005.	The museum is situated on an 80-foot bluff overlooking the Tennessee River and downtown Chattanooga.	Prior to the Civil War, the a furnace existed in the bluff below the present-day museum.
Sign describing the bluff furnace and the coming of the Civil War.	Iron was manufactured in pre-Civil War Chattanooga.	Bridge that leads across bluff to the museum.	Façade of the modern wing of the museum
A modern, cartoonish sculpture by Tom Otterness in front of the museum.	Sign describing the sculpture, which is entitled, "Free Money."	Side view of the modern section of the art museum.	From the art museum terrace, one can see the Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge.
Another view from the museum with the Tennessee Aquarium in the background.	The Tennessee Aquarium was built around the same time as Randall Stout modern wing of the Hunter Art Museum.	The Faxon House is the older section of the museum, built in 1904, where a Confederate battery had been fought.	From the Hunter Museum, we walked to the Bluff View Overlook for another view of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River.
I did a composite photo of a sign describing the history of the River Passage.	Sign at Bluff View Overlook describing the Tennessee River Park Master Plan.	Modern stainless steel and granite sculpture at Bluff View Overlook.	It is called "Continuum" and was sculpted by Sally Rodgers in 2012.
River view from the Bluff View Overlook.	As we continued on our walk, we walked back towards the Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge.	Sign at the entrance to the Bridge.	It was erected in 1990 by the Smith Bridge Company. It was the first bridge built crossing the river.
Banner for the Hunter Museum and Tennessee Aquarium, two of Chattanooga's biggest tourist attractions.	Façade of the Tennessee Aquarium.	It looks like fabric on the exterior, but it is actually stone.	Close-up of the aquarium. It opened in 1992, but had a major expansion at the same time of the art museum, in 2005.
Another vantage point of the aquarium.	View of the Tennessee Aquarium that faces the Tennessee River.	My final stop of the tour was to the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.	Sign describing Chattanooga's stragegic importance in the Civil War, because it was a railroad hub.
View of the present-day Chattanooga Choo-Choo.	Close-up of the steam locomotive.	Oversized checker and chess boards at the train station.	The Gardens Restaurant at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo station looked elegant.
View of one of the long trains at the station.	As one can see from this sign, there are many hotels and conferences at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo location.