Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 miles or 26 km in length) and the line between Bryson City and Nantahala (22 miles or 35 km in length).
In 1988, the State of North Carolina purchased the Murphy Branch from Norfolk Southern, the successor of Southern Railway, after the line was abandoned for lack of freight traffic. The Great Smokey Mountains Railroad, which was formed that same year, secured a lease agreement along 53 miles (85 km) of track between Dillsboro and Andrews.
In late 1991, the No. 1702 locomotive was purchased by the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSMR) in Bryson City, North Carolina, where it hauled tourist train excursions on the half of the former Southern Railway Murphy Branch, which spans 53 miles (85 kilometers) of track between Dillsboro and Nantahala, North Carolina.
In 1973, the railroad reopened when Burlington Industries bought the line. #1925 took over the excursion runs of the Bear Creek Scenic Railroad. [ 5 ] while a General Electric diesel handled most of the freight operations, [ 6 ] but also ceased operations in March 1975 when a flood washed out a bridge. [ 7 ]
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (For NKP 765 excursion trips, future) Hesston Steam Museum (For Hesston and Galena Creek excursions) Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum; Indiana Railway Museum; National New York Central Railroad Museum; Ohio River Scenic Railway; Whitewater Valley Railroad; Nickel Plate Express
Rail travel helped turn Pinehurst into a national golfing destination in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I rode the U.S. Open Express Thursday morning, and ventured into the past.
The New Hope Valley Railway is a heritage railroad in Bonsal, North Carolina operated by the North Carolina Railway Museum, Inc., an all-volunteer, nonprofit, and tax exempt educational and historical organization. The railroad consists of a total of five miles of track between the communities of Bonsal, North Carolina and New Hill, North Carolina.
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.