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# Kenny Sykes

Kenny Sykes (born 1973) is an American high school basketball coach who is best known for his collegiate career at Grambling State University between 1992 and 1995. Sykes, a 6'4" shooting guard, was the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Newcomer of the Year and a second team all-conference selection as a sophomore in 1992–93. He averaged 23.9 points, 5 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.1 steals per game that year. In Sykes' junior season he was once again named to the all-conference second team, this time behind averages of 21 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.8 steals. In 1994–95, his senior year, Sykes averaged a conference-leading 26.3 points per game as well as 4.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists. He was named the SWAC Player of the Year, becoming just the second player from Grambling State to earn the honor.
Sykes was selected in the 1995 Continental Basketball Association draft by the Yakima Sun Kings in the third round (42nd overall). He played in the United States Basketball League for the Florida Sea Dragons, but his semi-professional career was short-lived. Sykes eventually became an assistant men's basketball coach at Grambling State and was the interim head coach for a brief time after the 2007–08 season ended when Larry Wright was fired. Today he serves as a high school coach at Woodlawn High School in Shreveport, Louisiana.
# Chad Erskine

Chad Erskine (born 8 January 1980 in Pietermaritzburg) is an American former rugby union scrum-half. He was a member of the United States national rugby union team and participated with the squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He is currently a Rugby Color Commentator and Analysts for PRO Rugby.
# Vilnius Heat Plant

Vilnius Heat Plant or Vilnius Power Plant-2 is a power plant in Vilnius, Lithuania. Its capacity is 913 megawatts (MW) heating power and 24 MW electric power. It is operated by Vilniaus Energija UAB, a subsidiary of Dalkia.
The power plant is fueled by natural gas and heavy fuel oil (mazut). There is a plan to transfer it to biofuel based on a mixture of wood, straw and peat.
# Labib

Labib (Arabic: لبيب) is a masculine Arabic name. Notable people with the name include:

## Given name

* Labib Habachi (1906–1984), Egyptian Egyptologist
* Labib Hussein Abu Rokan (1911–1989), Israeli politician
* Labiba Hashim (1882–1952), Lebanese novelist
* Labib al-Fata al-Saqlabi (1009/1010 – 1039/1040), founder and first ruler of the Taifa of Tortosa
* Labib Mahmoud (1907–?), Egyptian footballer
* Labib Hasso (1925–?), Iraqi Olympic sprinter

## Surname

* Adel Labib, Egyptian politician
* Pahor Labib (1905–1994), Egyptian Egyptologist
* Claudius Labib (1868–1918), Egyptologist
* Mahmoud Labib (born 2005), Egyptian Footballer

## Other

* Labib (mascot), the former official mascot of the environment in Tunisia
# Gorbovo, Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District, Vologda Oblast

Gorbovo (Russian: Горбово) is a rural locality (a village) in Kichmengksoye Rural Settlement, Kichmengsko-Gorodetsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 34 as of 2002.

## Geography

Gorbovo is located 10 km north of Kichmengsky Gorodok (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nedubrovo is the nearest rural locality.
# Nadine Provençal

Nadine Provençal is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University and Investigator at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute. In 2020, she was recognized by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) with an appointment to CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar.

## Early life and education

Provençal earned her Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Montreal's Université Laval before enrolling at McGill University for her PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Upon receiving her PhD, Provençal completed her postdoctoral training at the Université de Montréal and accepted a research fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to complete a second postdoctoral training at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry (MPIP) in Germany. While completing her second postdoctoral training, she received a $50,000 grant from the Canadian Institute for Health Research Fellowship to focus on neuronal cellular models with multiple tissues from non-human primates also exposed to glucocorticoid activation.

## Career

In 2018, Provençal was recruited for a joint appointment at Simon Fraser University faculty of Health Sciences and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Alongside Faranak Farzan and William Odom, she received $450,000 through the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund to study exposure to early life stress. Provençal later led a study titled Glucocorticoid exposure during hippocampal neurogenesis primes future stress response by inducing changes in DNA methylation which found that when fetuses are exposures to stress during pregnancy by the mother, it affects them later in life. She also received $300,000 to open a new laboratory at SFU called Epigenomics of Developmental Trajectories, which would include sequencing platform capable of analyzing the entire genome of multiple individuals.
In 2020, Provençal was recognized by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) with an appointment to CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar.
# Doug Lecuyer

Douglas J. Lecuyer (born March 10, 1958) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 126 games in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Winnipeg Jets, and Pittsburgh Penguins.
Lecuyer was born in Wainwright, Alberta. He played junior in the Western Hockey League from 1973 until 1978. He became a professional the following season with the Chicago Blackhawks organization.
Having been a talented junior golfer, after retiring from hockey Lecuyer returned to the sport and pursued a career as a professional golfer.

## Career statistics
### Regular season and playoffs

| | | | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs |
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 1973–74 | Edmonton Oil Kings | WCHL | 54 | 15 | 22 | 37 | 130 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1974–75 | Edmonton Oil Kings | WCHL | 67 | 33 | 39 | 72 | 284 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1975–76 | Edmonton Oil Kings | WCHL | 61 | 40 | 32 | 72 | 335 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 52 |
| 1976–77 | Portland Winter Hawks | WCHL | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1976–77 | Calgary Centennials | WCHL | 50 | 40 | 42 | 82 | 216 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1977–78 | Portland Winter Hawks | WCHL | 65 | 43 | 46 | 89 | 362 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 43 |
| 1978–79 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1978–79 | New Brunswick Hawks | AHL | 43 | 18 | 29 | 47 | 125 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1979–80 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 53 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 59 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 15 |
| 1979–80 | New Brunswick Hawks | AHL | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1979–80 | Dallas Black Hawks | CHL | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1980–81 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1980–81 | Winnipeg Jets | NHL | 45 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 66 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1981–82 | Tulsa Oilers | CHL | 69 | 30 | 38 | 68 | 114 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1982–83 | Baltimore Skipjacks | AHL | 63 | 17 | 33 | 50 | 56 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1982–83 | Pittsburgh Penguins | NHL | 12 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |
| NHL Totals | NHL Totals | NHL Totals | 126 | 11 | 31 | 42 | 178 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 15 |

## Professional golf tournament wins

* 1983 Canadian Assistant Professionals Championship
* 1984 PGA of Alberta Championship
* 1985 PGA of Alberta Championship
* 1986 PGA of Alberta Championship
# Dhekelia Cantonment

Dhekelia Cantonment (Greek: Φρουρά Δεκέλειας, Turkish: Dikelya Kantonu), also simply named Dhekelia, is a military base in Akrotiri and Dhekelia, a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus, administered as the Sovereign Base Areas. It is the larger of the two British military bases on the island, and it is also the location of Alexander Barracks, which is home to the 2nd Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. In Autumn 2017, the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment deployed to Dhekelia replacing 2nd Battalion, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.
It forms a part of British Forces Cyprus.
Dhekelia contains the village of Dasaki Achnas and a portion of the village Pergamos, and also includes several Cypriot enclaves including Xylotymbo, Ormidhia and Dhekelia Power Station. However, the cantonment expands out more northeast with a 90m wide narrow corridor, which leads to even more Dhekelian land which includes Ayios Nikolaos Station and a Green Line crossing point.
The cantonment is also referred to as the Eastern Sovereign Base Area prior to its location to Akrotiri.
# Aghcheh, Isfahan

Aghcheh (Persian: آغچه) is a village in Yeylaq Rural District of the Central District of Buin Miandasht County, Isfahan province, Iran.

## Demographics
### Language

The town is about 60% Georgian speaking, 20% Luri speaking and the rest being standard Farsi.

### Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 995 in 223 households, when it was in the former Buin Miandasht District of Faridan County. The following census in 2011 counted 1,231 people in 361 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 934 people in 311 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Buin Miandasht County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District. It was the most populous village in its rural district.
# Kent Carlson

Kent Berger Carlson (born January 11, 1962) is an American former ice hockey defenseman. Drafted in 1982 by the Montreal Canadiens, Carlson, also played for the St. Louis Blues, and Washington Capitals between 1983 and 1988. In 2005, Carlson participated in the Hockey Enforcers (hockey fighting) event that was shown on pay-per-view from Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.

## Career statistics
### Regular season and playoffs

| | | | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs |
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 1976–77 | Concord High School | HS-NH | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1977–78 | Concord High School | HS-NH | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1978–79 | Concord High School | HS-NH | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1979–80 | New Hampton School | HS-NH | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1980–81 | New Hampton School | HS-NH | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1981–82 | St. Lawrence University | ECAC | 28 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1982–83 | St. Lawrence University | ECAC | 36 | 10 | 23 | 33 | 56 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1983–84 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 65 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 73 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1984–85 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 33 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1984–85 | Sherbrooke Canadiens | AHL | 13 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985–86 | Sherbrooke Canadiens | AHL | 35 | 11 | 15 | 26 | 79 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1985–86 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1985–86 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 26 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 42 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 1987–88 | Peoria Rivermen | IHL | 52 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 88 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1987–88 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1988–89 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1988–89 | Baltimore Skipjacks | AHL | 28 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 69 | — | — | — | — | — |
| NHL totals | NHL totals | NHL totals | 113 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 148 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |

## Awards and honors

| Award | Year |
| All-ECAC Hockey Second Team | 1982–83 |
# Hayden Mexted

Hayden Mexted (born 10 March 1979 in Whakatāne) is a former New Zealand-born American rugby union lock. He was a member of the United States national rugby union team that participated in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He is a distant cousin of Murray Mexted. He was also capable of playing number 8, much like his cousin.
# Tranel Hawkins

Tranel Hawkins (born 17 September 1962) is an American hurdler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
# Tom Kidd (golfer)

Christopher Thomas Kidd (c. 1848 – 16 January 1884) was a Scottish professional golfer who played in the late 19th century. He won the 1873 Open Championship on his home course at St Andrews, Scotland.

## Early life and career

He was a caddie from St Andrews and won the 1873 Open Championship over his home links. It was the first Open played on the Old Course. Conditions were wet and Kidd's winning score of 179 was the highest in any Open Championship played over 36 holes.
His cash prize was £11. He was known as Tom Kidd or "Young Tom Kidd" to distinguish him from his father Tom Kidd who was also a caddie and died in the poorhouse in Markinch in 1896. Kidd married Eliza (or Elizabeth) Lumsden in November 1874 aged 25, when he is described as a golf caddie. He died suddenly of a heart problem in 1884 and left two surviving children. His wife did not remarry and died in Cupar in 1935.
At a court for the renewal of drink licences in St Andrews in April 1884, the inspector of police said that the licensee of the Golf Inn, George Leslie, illegally bought clubs and similar items for drinks. After Kidd's death his cleek and iron were found in Leslie's possession together with the gold medal for winning the 1873 Open. Leslie had paid 2 shillings each for the club and 10 shillings for the gold medal. The three items were later bought by a third party and the gold medal returned to his widow. Leslie denied the allegation stating that he had bought the clubs but not the medal. The medal had been taken as surety for a 10 shilling loan. He claimed that, at the time Kidd was a "Good Templar" and "not a shilling" of the money had been spent in the inn. It was considered a "very suspicious case". After an adjournment the licence was granted by a majority of 3 to 2.

## Death and legacy

Kidd died due to a heart problem on 16 January 1884, aged 35 or 36, and left behind a wife and two children. He won the 1873 Open Championship, and was also the first player to be awarded the Claret Jug, which has been the winner's trophy for The Open Championship ever since (although Young Tom Morris, who won the previous year, was the first whose name was engraved on the trophy).

## Major championships
### Wins (1)

| Year | Championship | 18 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runner-up |
| 1873 | The Open Championship | Tied for lead | 91-88=179 | 1 stroke | Jamie Anderson |

### Results timeline

| Tournament | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 |
| The Open Championship | 1 | T8 | | T17 | | | 5 | | | T11 |
* Note: The Open Championship was the only major played during Kidd's lifetime.
"T" indicates a tie for a place
# Pakhomovo, Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast

Pakhomovo (Russian: Пахомово) is a rural locality (a village) in Permasskoye Rural Settlement, Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 9 as of 2002.

## Geography

Pakhomovo is located 33 km south of Nikolsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Brodovitsa is the nearest rural locality.
# Dishna, Egypt

Dishna (Arabic: دشنا, from Coptic: ⲧⲉϣⲛⲏ, lit. 'the tree garden') is a settlement west of Qena situated on the north bank of the river Nile in Qena Governorate, Egypt.

## Geography

Dishna is 453 km (281 mi) from Cairo.

## History

An expedition of the Southern University of Texas explored the Sebilian culture on the Dishna plains. The Ain Khoman tools of Oasis Baharia were identified as similar to the Esnan industry of the Dishna dated to c.12,300 B.P, differing only with respect to bifacial tools. Several sites between Wadi Kubbaniya and the plains contained assemblages also of Esnan industrial production. The Esnan industry, also known as Mesnian, employed a non-levallois technique, productions composed largely of end-scrapers, though also including a much smaller number of arch-backed bladelets and trapezoid.
# Kent Kinnear

Kent Kinnear (born November 30, 1966) is a former professional tennis player from the United States.
Kinnear enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won four doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 15 times. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 24 in 1992.

## Career finals
### Doubles (4 wins, 15 losses)

| Result | W/L | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
| Loss | 1. | Apr 1990 | Tokyo Outdoor, Japan | Hard | Brad Pearce | Mark Kratzmann Wally Masur | 6–3, 3–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 2. | Apr 1991 | Seoul, South Korea | Hard | Sven Salumaa | Alex Antonitsch Gilad Bloom | 6–7, 1–6 |
| Loss | 3. | Aug 1991 | Indianapolis, U.S. | Hard | Sven Salumaa | Ken Flach Robert Seguso | 6–7, 4–6 |
| Win | 1. | Sep 1991 | Brasília, Brazil | Clay | Roger Smith | Ricardo Acioly Mauro Menezes | 6–4, 6–3 |
| Loss | 4. | Mar 1992 | Scottsdale, U.S. | Hard | Sven Salumaa | Mark Keil Dave Randall | 6–4, 1–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 5. | Mar 1992 | Indian Wells, U.S. | Hard | Sven Salumaa | Steve DeVries David Macpherson | 6–4, 3–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 6. | Mar 1992 | Miami, U.S. | Hard | Sven Salumaa | Ken Flach Todd Witsken | 4–6, 3–6 |
| Loss | 7. | Oct 1992 | Vienna, Austria | Carpet | Udo Riglewski | Ronnie Båthman Anders Järryd | 3–6, 5–7 |
| Loss | 8. | Apr 1994 | Seoul, South Korea | Hard | Sébastien Lareau | Stephane Simian Kenny Thorne | 4–6, 6–3, 5–7 |
| Loss | 9. | Jul 1994 | Newport, U.S. | Grass | David Wheaton | Alex Antonitsch Greg Rusedski | 4–6, 6–3, 4–6 |
| Win | 2. | Oct 1994 | Beijing, China | Carpet | Tommy Ho | David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy | 7–6, 6–3 |
| Win | 3. | Aug 1995 | Los Angeles, U.S. | Hard | Brent Haygarth | Scott Davis Goran Ivanišević | 6–4, 7–6 |
| Loss | 10. | Oct 1995 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hard | David Wheaton | Jim Grabb Jared Palmer | 4–6, 5–7 |
| Loss | 11. | Jan 1996 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Hard | Dave Randall | Rick Leach Scott Melville | 1–6, 6–2, 1–6 |
| Loss | 12. | Apr 1996 | Hong Kong | Hard | Dave Randall | Patrick Galbraith Andrei Olhovskiy | 3–6, 7–6, 6–7 |
| Loss | 13. | Oct 1996 | Singapore | Hard | Kevin Ullyett | Rick Leach Jonathan Stark | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Loss | 14. | Jul 1997 | Newport, U.S. | Grass | Aleksandar Kitinov | Justin Gimelstob Brett Steven | 3–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 4. | Sep 1997 | Bournemouth, UK | Clay | Aleksandar Kitinov | Alberto Martín Chris Wilkinson | 7–6, 6–2 |
| Loss | 15. | Mar 1998 | Scottsdale, U.S. | Hard | David Wheaton | Michael Tebbutt Cyril Suk | 6–4, 1–6, 6–7 |
# Daegu Technical University

Daegu Technical University is a private technical university located in the Dalseo-gu district of Daegu, the third-largest city in South Korea. It provides training in primarily industrial fields. About 60 instructors are employed.

## Academics

Academic offerings are provided through the four academic divisions of the college: Engineering, Humanities and Society, Natural Science, and Arts. The majority of offerings, in fields such as automotive science and computer information, are under the Division of Engineering.

## History

The college was founded in 1976 by the Daegu Educational Foundation, as Daegu Industrial Technical School (대구실업전문학교). It became a technical college in 1979, and took on its present name in 1998.
# Zoológico Los Coyotes

The Zoológico Los Coyotes is the third zoo in Mexico City, Mexico. It was opened on 2 February 1999 to complement the other zoos of the City of Mexico. It is built on a site that was previously a centre for seized animals, which it fell into disrepair. It mainly exhibits endemic and native fauna of Mexico including two coyotes, the species that the zoo is named after.
# Tenkerli, Feke

Tenkerli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Feke, Adana Province, Turkey. Its population is 203 (2022). The village inhabited by Turkmens of the Varsak tribe.
# Caroline McQuarrie

Caroline Lucy McQuarrie (born 1975) is a New Zealand artist and senior lecturer in photography at Massey University in Wellington.

## Life

McQuarrie was born in 1975 in Greymouth, on the West Coast of the South Island. Her father Bob McQuarrie was a potter and her mother Barbara McQuarrie a textile artist. McQuarrie enjoyed drawing from an early age, and was influenced by family friends photographer Frank Simpson and potter Daphne Simpson who together ran Coast Craft in Greymouth; Daphne taught her to draw and paint, and she studied photography and painting in her final year of high school. At the University of Canterbury, she studied photography, completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997.

## Artistic career

After graduating, McQuarrie worked in photography laboratories in the United Kingdom, learning photo retouching and Adobe Photoshop. After returning to New Zealand in 2002 she began a Master of Fine Arts at Massey University in Wellington, completing it in 2005; her focus at this point was sculptural textile work. By this time she was also working in the university's photography department as a tutor, a job which became full time. In 2010, she was an artist in residence at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School for five weeks. As of 2023, McQuarrie is working at Massey University's College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwhārangi in Wellington, where she is Senior Lecturer in Photography.
McQuarrie's work often explores personal and family histories, particular of early Pākehā settler women, combining photography and textiles in her art. One of her photography projects has been sites of former mining settlements such as Waiuta in the West Coast region.
She has used alternative photography techniques like cyanotype and photograms, and incorporates crochet, sewing, and stitching into her work. McQuarrie counts as her influences the photographers Anne Ferran and Cathy Tuato'o Ross and the textile artist Vanessa Crowe.
With her partner, photographer Shaun Matthews, McQuarrie explored in the 2018 show Fearful Prospects the 1846 journey of explorer Thomas Brunner and his Māori guides from Nelson to the West Coast and back. It included enormous fabric-printed photographs taken with a pinhole camera, embroidered samplers with texts from Brunner's diary, and a collection of pāraerae sandals woven from harakeke.
Her 2021 show The New Sun – her first in a dealer gallery – included linen samplers embroidered with the imagined words of pioneer women, complemented by colour photographs of the landscapes transformed by mining.

## Significant works

* This is the First Day of My Life (2008–09), a floor work made of recycled wool, cotton, and acrylic

## Selected solo shows

* Artifact. 19 June – 21 July 2012: Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin
* No Town. 24 April 2014 – 23 August 2015: Aratoi, Masterton; Carnegie Gallery, Hokitika; Left Bank Art Gallery, Greymouth; Te Uru Waitākere, Auckland.
* Waiuta. 16 November – 10 December 2015: Plymouth University, UK.
* The New Sun. 11 February – 13 March 2021: Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington
# Blue Ridge Scenic Railway

The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in northern Georgia.
Based in Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States it follows the former Marietta and 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. The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway started operations in 1998.
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.