Restorations

Southern Railway 2-8-0 #722 begins restoration by the Great Smokey Mountains Railroad

The Great Smokey Mountains Railroad (GSMR) in North Carolina has announced the beginning of the operational restoration of Southern Railway #722. The locomotive last ran in 1985 and has been awaiting restoration since. #722 was built by Baldwin in 1904 for the Southern and worked on the Murphy branch line until being sold to the

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