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The railroad utilizes what was originally an industrial spur built in 1869 by the Stone Mountain Granite Company to serve quarries at the foot of the Stone Mountain, with a connection to the Georgia Railroad's main line in Stone Mountain Village. The railroad later started an excursion service to the mountain.
The Atlanta, Stone Mountain and Lithonia Railway (ASM&L; reporting mark ASML) was a rock quarry railroad that began operations in 1909. A "common carrier" railroad it had lines connecting to the Georgia Railroad and primarily served granite and gneiss quarries at Lithonia and at Stone Mountain in DeKalb County. [1]
Stone Mountain, c. 1910 Grist Mill from 1869 at Stone Mountain Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad depot, 1971 Human habitation of Stone Mountain and its surroundings date back into prehistory . When the mountain was first encountered by European explorers, its summit was encircled by a rock wall, similar to that still to be found on Georgia's Fort ...
Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad; Strasburg Rail Road; Sumpter Valley Railway; South Central Florida Express, Inc. (AKA, Sugar Express) Tallulah Falls Railroad Museum;
Stone Mountain #104, formerly Louisiana Eastern #1 on display at the Southeastern Railway Museum since 2008. Number 1, 4-4-0, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1919 as Red River and Gulf number 104. Was sold to the Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad where it was given the name "General
The museum displayed pictures and artifacts from the Civil War, including the Texas, a steam locomotive that pursued the captured train the General in the Great Locomotive Chase during the war. This raid was depicted in the 1927 Buster Keaton film The General and the 1956 Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase.
The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. The first was built in 1928 by American Locomotive Company; at the time, it was the largest locomotive ever built. It had the largest firebox ever applied to a steam locomotive, some 182 square feet (16.9 m 2) in area, to burn Rosebud coal, a cheap low-quality coal. But the ...
The locomotive continued service with the Southern until being retired in 1942 when the Smoky Mountain Railroad purchased No. 107, retaining its number, in order to handle increased traffic during its "boom days", brought about by the construction of the TVA Douglas Dam Project on the French Broad River near Sevierville. The SMRR hauled ...