Two Southern Railway GP-38's with a short westbound freight have just clawed their way upgrade out of the Nantahala Gorge and reached the summit at Topton.

Two Southern Railway GP-38's tread lightly through the Nantahala Gorge with an eight-car freight westbound for Andrews, NC on Southern's Murphy Branch.

A westbound Southern Railway freight enters the Nantahala Gorge in October 1979. This location is within a few hundred feet of where the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad trains now make their stop a... (more)