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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Built as Southern Railway #722. Sold to the ET&WNC in November 1952. Traded back to the Southern for an RS-3 in December 1967. Now awaiting restoration at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City, North Carolina: 828: 2-8-0: Baldwin Locomotive Works: 16858: 7/1899: 8/1937: Built as Norfolk and Western Railway #828. Sold to the ET&WNC ...
Bryson City is a town in and the county seat of Swain County, North Carolina, United States. [4] The population was 1,558 as of the 2020 census. [5] Located in what was historically the land of the Cherokee, Bryson City was founded as Charleston to serve as the county seat of Swain County when it was formed from parts of surrounding counties.
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
The Great Smoky Mountains (Cherokee: ᎡᏆ ᏚᏧᏍᏚ ᏙᏓᎸ, Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains and form part of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province .