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Stone Mountain Scenic RR: Shop & Yards

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Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad (SMRR): Yard & Shops

Interesting equipment can be seen lying about the storage tracks and sidings. At bottom left just outside the main shed are two EMD FP-7As #6143 & #6147 (ex Southern RR?). Just above the F-7s sitting all by itself is the SMRR #104, a 4-4-0 Baldwin built in 1919. It has not run since the mid 1980s due to a lack of boiler repairs and has recently been donated to the Southeastern RR Museum in Duluth, GA. Under the trees back of the square admin building at center is #60, the other Baldwin 4-4-0 on the SMRR. It too is in disrepair. These two steamers were respectively named “General II” and “Texas II” in honor of the original participants of the Great Locomotive Chase during the Civil War. Trailing #60 on its siding are two of the original Pullman coaches used to haul passengers on the 5-mile route around the mountain. Further back on the siding are what appears to be some empty gondolas. At far right are a couple of ancient GP-9s along with a few more of the original coaches.

Lastly, the long building at the top of the yard was the former site of a replica Wild West town. For many years the train would stop here to be attacked and “robbed” by local college students dressed up as bandits and Indians. Other actors dressed as the sheriff and his posse would arrive in the nick of time to save the train. Sometimes the actors would clamber aboard the train while it was still in motion and stage gun battles (with blanks) in the aisles of the coaches. It was all great fun, but was regarded as being too non-PC by the late 1970s and abandoned.

Some up close photos of the equipment and “town” can be seen at the link below.

www.trainweb.org/chris/smtrr.html
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Coordinates:   33°48'4"N   84°8'10"W
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