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Blue Ridge Scenic Railway Blue Ridge, Georgia ... How to Ride: Ticket prices start at $41 each. Children receive a special surprise gift during the ride. For more information visit mountainrailwv.com.
The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in northern Georgia. Based in Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States it follows the former Marietta and North Georgia Railroad line along the Toccoa River north to McCaysville, Georgia, and its Twin city of Copperhill, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of the Georgia Northeastern Railroad, which also ...
The GNRR's subsidiary, the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, also operates on this line north of Blue Ridge. Despite the name, it actually operates between north-central and northwest Georgia, from north-northwest metro Atlanta, and is a few counties away from northeast Georgia.
Merging with the Georgia and North Carolina Railroad necessitated another slight name change, to the Marietta and North Georgia Railway rather than the previous Railroad. It was converted from three-foot (775mm) narrow gauge to standard gauge as far north as Blue Ridge, Georgia in 1890, and from there to Murphy in 1897.
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Blue Ridge Railway may refer to: Blue Ridge Railroad (1849–1870) in Virginia, predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway; Blue Ridge Railway (1901) in South Carolina, predecessor of the Southern Railway until about 1990 Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina, 1852–1880, predecessor of the above; Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, tourist line in ...
Blue Ridge is the home of the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, a restored railroad that features a four-hour, 26 mile roundtrip journey along the Toccoa River to the sister towns McCaysville, Georgia, and Copperhill, Tennessee. [8] The original tracks started in Marietta, Georgia, and reached Blue Ridge and the surrounding areas in 1886.