"Great Smokey Mountain RR"

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A bit of additional information......coming in to Murphy, NC and connecting with the Southern there was a L&N branch coming off the L&N's old Hook and Eye mainline at Murphy Jct. near Blue Ridge, GA.  All but 5 miles of this line was abandoned and removed in the 1980's.  The 5 remaining miles line now ends at Mineral Bluff.  When I lived in Clemson, SC in the 1990's I was invited by friends that owned and operated motor cars to do a run from Dillsboro to Murphy and back. It was an interesting trip.

Ed Painter; Narrows, VA living in Russellville, AR

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Gene,

The Great Smoky Mountain Railroad between Dillsboro and Andrews, NC
was never a part of the Norfolk and Western. The GSMR was once part of
the former Southern Railway (and later  Norfolk Southern)'s Murphy
Branch that ran from Asheville, NC to Murphy, NC. The rail line from
Dillsboro to Andrews was sold by NS in 1988 to the Great Smoky
Mountains Railway, which later changed its' name to the Great Smoky
Mountains Railroad in either late 1999 or 2000 after the line was
purchased by American Heritage Railways.

Steven Ashley
Spartanburg, SC
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