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On March 9, 2000, the Great Smoky Mountain Railway was renamed to the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. [2] Tourist trains of the GSMR route use a route passing through "fertile valleys, a tunnel and across river gorges" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina. Tourist excursions use the line between Dillsboro and Bryson City (16 ...
Southern Railway 722 is a Ks-1 class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works to run on the Murphy Branch, where it hauled freight trains between Asheville and Murphy, North Carolina for the Southern Railway (SOU).
A former Southern Railway depot in Bryson City, North Carolina, now serving as the main headquarter of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSMR). The Murphy Branch is a branch line operated by the Western North Carolina Railroad, later the Richmond and Danville, Southern Railway, the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and today the Blue Ridge Southern Railroad.
The train station, operated by the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, provides round-trip excursions through the Nantahala Gorge and along the Tuckasegee River. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Seasonal and themed round-trip excursions, including the Polar Express , are also available.
The 630 is now at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the 722 is now at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City, North Carolina. The Green Bay Packaging Company of Green Bay, Wisconsin, ultimately acquired the railroad properties and reorganized the company as the East Tennessee Railway (ETRY). Since ...
Caldwell County Railroad (CWCY) Cape Fear Railways (CF) Carolina Coastal Railway (CLNA) (Operates the Nash County Railroad) Chesapeake and Albemarle Railroad (CA) Clinton Terminal Railroad (CTR) CSX Transportation (CSXT) Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSM) High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad (HPTD) Kinston and Snow Hill Railroad (KSH)
Railroad AAR rep. mark Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad: AR Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway: ACWR Alexander Railroad: ARC Atlantic & Western Railway: ATW Caldwell County Railroad: CWCY Carolina Central Railway: Carolina Coastal Railway: CLNA Great Smoky Mountains Railroad: GSMR Winston-Salem Southbound Railway: WSS Yadkin Valley Railroad: YVRR
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 1702 is an S160 class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in September 1942 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally for the U.S. Army Transportation Corps during World War II.