Graham County Railroad No. 1925 Vintage

by Joseph C Hinson

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Graham County Railroad No. 1925 Vintage

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Joseph C Hinson

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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Graham County Railroad No. 1925 is a three-truck Shay locomotive that was built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1925 for the Graham Country Railroad. The railroad was known for numbering their locomotives the year they were built.

This locomotive was designed to to work at the Graham Country to haul logs out of the Snowbird Mountains to the Bemis Lumber Company mill in Robbinsville, NC.

When the logging portion was closed in 1948 the railroad continued to carry general freight between Robbinsville and Topton, NC, where an interchange was made with the Southern Railway, but eventually the railroad went bankrupt.

Various attempts were made to reopen the line, but eventually it was abandoned and the rails were taken up. The No. 1925 eventually made it to the North Carolina Railroad Museum where I shot a volunteer getting ready to put her away for the day in 2005.

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October 6th, 2018

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