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Passenger traffic on the Murphy Branch, then owned by the sprawling Southern Railway System, began to decline as a result of the introduction of automobile and bus travel. Southern discontinued all passenger traffic on the Murphy Branch on July 16th, 1948, 

Before there was Brosnan Forest (NS's employee resort and meeting center), there
was Almond, NC on the Murphy Branch..  D. W. Brosnan owned property there and 
each fall, every Southern supervisor was expected to attend a week's worth of pep talks.
Each Sunday, an office car special would operate Almond to Asheville to connect with the Asheville Special.  Each day started at 6:00 AM and ended at 11:00 PM after a sing-a-long. 
Mr. Brosnan would rotate through the assembly and if he found a supervisor not singing,
he'd ask him how he liked his job.  Brosnan would call vice presidents to the speaker's
stand and criticize their performance before all.  Sunday's train was something to look
foreward to.                                       Harry Bundy

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