Blue Ridge Scenic Railway

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The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad that started operations in 1998. it follows the former Marietta and North Georgia Railroad line along the Toccoa River north to McCaysville, Georgia. It is a subsidiary of the Georgia Northeastern Railr

The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a heritage railway - a railway kept to carry older historical rail traffic in order to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Often it is an old railway line preserved in such a way that it depicts a certain period, or periods, in the history of railway systems.

Trains generally run Fridays to Mondays from late March to the last weekend in December, daily (except Wednesdays) during spring break (first full week of April), and summer (mid-June to the end of July), and from October until Thanksgiving. A special Christmas train runs Thanksgiving weekend, the weekends following, and the full week prior to Christmas itself. Normal trips resume for the final week of the year.