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Many of the people that visit Sevierville and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee don't realize that the towns used to be served by a standard gauge railroad called the Smokey Mountain Railroad. It folded shortly after WWII but two of the roads engines remain.
When the Rebel Railroad tourist line was built (this is what is today the train ride at Dollywood) SMRR #107 and #206 where put on display in Pigeon Forge to mark the entrance to Rebel Railroad. #206 has been moved to Chattanooga and is on display at the Choo Choo Hilton as engine #29. #107 remains in Pigeon Forge to this day.
So much has built up around the engine that she almost seems to be forgotten amongst everything. Shes tucked away behind a Dollywood information center and can only be seen if your in the parking lot. She hasn't been painted in some time and is still wearing a Dollywood Express paint scheme that hasn't been used in years.
She's stripped too and I mean STRIPPED. Anything that wasn't welded to the frame is gone and in some cases even that hasn't stopped some people from getting stuff off her.
When the Rebel Railroad tourist line was built (this is what is today the train ride at Dollywood) SMRR #107 and #206 where put on display in Pigeon Forge to mark the entrance to Rebel Railroad. #206 has been moved to Chattanooga and is on display at the Choo Choo Hilton as engine #29. #107 remains in Pigeon Forge to this day.
So much has built up around the engine that she almost seems to be forgotten amongst everything. Shes tucked away behind a Dollywood information center and can only be seen if your in the parking lot. She hasn't been painted in some time and is still wearing a Dollywood Express paint scheme that hasn't been used in years.
She's stripped too and I mean STRIPPED. Anything that wasn't welded to the frame is gone and in some cases even that hasn't stopped some people from getting stuff off her.
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Actually, she's an East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway locomotive built in the early 1890s. She would have been a compound steam locomotive with the high pressure engine on one side and the low pressure engine on the other. All of the ETV&G compound 2-8-0s were later rebuilt as simple locomotives and became the
Southern's G class.
Southern's G class.
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