Blue Ridge Scenic Railway: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a tourist railway in northern Georgia. Based in Blue Ridge, Georgia, it follows the former Marietta & North Georgia Railroad line along the Toccoa River north to McCaysville, Georgia, and its twin city of Copperhill, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of the Georgia Northeastern Railroad, which also operates freight service on the same line.

Trains generally run fridays to mondays from just after St. Patrick's Day in March to just after Thanksgiving in November, and all week during the summer (mid-June to the end of July) and spring break (first full week of April), and during October and early November. A special Christmas train runs usually from the weekend before Thanksgiving to the weekend before Christmas, but on saturdays and sundays only during December.