In 2000, with a new tuscan red and gold stripe livery, retiring the bright and colorful blue, yellow and red "circus train" livery, the GSMR debuted as the newly formed Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, changing the latter from Railway to Railroad. In December 1999, MacNeil sold the GSMR to American Heritage Railways, owners of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) in Colorado. Several miles of the line between the far western end of the Nantahala Gorge and Andrews are currently out of service excursions currently utilize the line between Bryson City and Nantahala (22 miles or 35 km in length) and the line between Bryson City and Dillsboro (16 miles or 26 km in length). The GSMR route uses a route which passes through "fertile valleys, a tunnel and across river gorges" in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina. With help of a team of investors, MacNeil secured the lease within 48 hours of the Norfolk Southern Railway dispatching work trains to the Murphy Branch to begin dismantling the track. GSMR, which began operations in 1988, through a lease agreement from the NCDOT by Malcom and Joan MacNeil. The line was completed to Dillsboro in 1883 and reached Andrews in 1890. The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (formerly Railway) owns 53 miles (85 kilometers) of the Murphy Branch, a former branch line of the Southern Railway between Dillsboro and Andrews, North Carolina. The railroad has a total of two steam locomotives (one of which is operational) and soon-to-be seven diesel locomotives in their current roster. Today, the railroad operates excursions on the former Southern Railway branch line between Bryson City and Dillsboro, North Carolina. As of December 1999, the railroad is currently owned and operated by American Heritage Railways, Inc., which also owns and operates the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) in Colorado. The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad ( reporting mark GSM) is a freight and heritage railroad in Bryson City, North Carolina, United States. JSTOR ( April 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĥ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Great Smoky Mountains Railroad" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. #28 to 36 seem to be in the same location, but where ? The station is rather extensive for a meter gauge network.This article needs additional citations for verification. #30 : Western Tunisia or Eastern Algeria, near Tebessa : meter gauge locomotive, class 2.2-251 to 258 or 451 to 482 (I can’t read unit # on the cab), built between 18. #28 : Western Tunisia or Eastern Algeria, near Tebessa : meter gauge locomotive, class 150-851 to 865, built 1930. #25 : Garratt steam locomotive, 231-132-BT class (same unit as #23 ?) Huge engines for European and Nth African loading gauge : length 29,43 metres, 216 metric tons. #20 : Berliet diesel truck, fitted with “gazogène” (used during wartime in France, because of oil shortage). #13 : Orléansville ? Same steam locomotive class as # 8 & 9. #12 : Orléansville ? Diesel shunter supplied for wartime by British army. Locomotive 4-A class built in the 1870s and 1880s for the Paris – Lyon – Méditerranée French company, later transfered to the Algerian PLM network. This station has always been rather busy, as in steam locomotive times, all passenger trains running between Oran and Algiers had to change locomotive here.
Pasqual from France has identified some locations and equipment from the photos This is part 1 and 2 of Todd's 713th photos Todd shared his very interesting paper on the 713th and an unbelievable collection of photos !
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