Thunder in the Nantahala Gorge, chasing GSMR

[@1chuck96]

'Looks like a VERY profitable short line road...Everything looks clean and well done.

[@trainhuntersfamily8625]

@@1chuck96 The great Smokey mountain railroad is very successful. It runs out of Bryson City NC this was the Nantahala gorge excursion but it also runs from Bryson City to Dillsboro NC. It does many runs a week on the Nantahala gorge and occasionally goes down the Tuskegee River to dillsboro and back.

[@T128Productions]

That whistle sounds so perfect for the old 1702!

[@KitchenManager-b4y]

Hey Gus.

[@1chuck96]

I'm having trouble with 1702's lineage. She looks like an old Reader Railroad loco that was possibly used, (back in the day). @ Ft. Eustis, VA for the U,S, Army Corp. and Engineers. I believe ALCO built her due to her unmistakable whistle of a GTW U3b 4-8-4. How far off am I???

[@trainhuntersfamily8625]

@@1chuck96 An S160 class 2-8-0 built by Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia in 1942 for the ww2 transportation corps. Pretty close.