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The famous train wreck scene in the 1993 Warner Brothers blockbuster movie The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was filmed in Dillsboro along the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. [21] The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad was used in the filming of 1996 Warner Brothers comedy My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon and James ...
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.
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.
WNC sites voted to USA TODAY's 10Best Reader's Choice award lists once again, with winners in Sylva, Bryson City and DuPont State Forest.
311/1311: converted into an open-air car, it runs on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad [9] 315/1315 and 317/1317: Formerly part of the Coe Rail dinner trains, they are now owned by the Medina Railroad Museum in New York. [9] 318/1318: Privately owned in Iowa, it is being restored as a lounge car in a hybrid DL&W/EL paint livery. [9]
Great Smoky Mountains 777 September 1954 GP9R Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (C&NW) Railway Equipment Leasing Company (RELCO) December 20, 1989 (C&NW) December 2022 (GSMR) Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City, North Carolina 2022 Destroyed in staged train wreck
My train was scheduled to leave Denver Union Station around 7 a.m. to arrive in Winter Park around 9 a.m. — right as its ski lifts open for the day.