W North Carolina

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Trip to W North Carolina

Trip to Western North Carolina, Cherokee, Dillsboro, April 16-19 2005
(see blog)

Pictures in this album

To Dillsboro
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26 to 40, for Chas SC to Dillsboro NC
(see blog)
To Dillsboro
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23 to Dillsboro NC
(see blog)
Cherokee, NC
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Map of Cherokee and surrounding regions. The light green is the Great Smoky Mountains national park. I think the NC-Tennessee border pretty much follows the Appalachian Trail here.
(see blog)
Dillsboro to SC178
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Dillsboro to Sylva to 107 to Tuckasegee to 281 to Lake Toxaway to 64 to 178.
(see blog)
Dillsboro and Sylva
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Dillsboro and Sylva area
(see blog)
GSMR Chessie System caboose
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad with a Chessie System caboose
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad open air observation cars and closed cars
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad engine number 1755
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad engine number 1755. Note the various MU hoses and brake hose.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad engine number 1755 and me.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad coupling between cars
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Each car has a 'truck' at each end, which holds two or three axles.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 1pm Dillsboro-Bryson City, pulling out of Dillsboro.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. This is the train wreck used in the movie The Fugitive.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad crossing trestle bridge over Tuckasegee river.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad following Tuckasegee river.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad following Tuckasegee river.
(see blog)
GSMR train
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad caboose and tanker.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout. Amtrak passing passenger station, which is under a town.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout. Steam engine roundhouse, passenger station on the upper left, IM yard in right background.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout. Inter-modal (container) yard.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout. Waterfall with real water.
(see blog)
Smoky Mountain Trains Museum
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Smoky Mountain Trains model layout.
(see blog)
Chairlift hilltop
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Top of chairlift hill in Cherokee, NC
(see blog)
Chairlift
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Chairlift in Cherokee, NC
(see blog)
Clingman's Dome
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Great Smoky Mountains national park - Walking up to Clingman's Dome. Half mile hike up from the parking lot.
(see blog)
Clingman's Dome
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Great Smoky Mountains national park. Clingman's Dome is about 40 feet lower than the highest point east of the Mississippi.
(see blog)
State line
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Great Smoky Mountains national park. Tennessee-North Carolina state line.
(see blog)
Mingo Falls
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Mingo Falls, near Cherokee, NC
(see blog)
Route 281
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Route 281 unpaved section descends the mountains of North Carolina.
(see blog)