Blue Ridge Southern train T59 heads down to Sylva with a rare trio of locomotives and sixteen cars including five car loads of 136 lb. rail for Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Before being sold to... (more)

After driving from Sylva to Waynesville only to realize that T59 had been in Sylva the whole time, we managed to catch them a few places. The ground still had a little snow on it from a Thanksgivi... (more)

P73 reaches the bottom of Balsam Grade on the former SOU Murphy Branch, one of the steepest grades remaining in the U.S. The train is about to pass under the Great Smoky Mtns. Expressway (US 74) ... (more)