Graham County Railroad No. 1926

Graham County Railroad No. 1926 is a three-truck Shay locomotive that was built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1926 for the Graham Country Railroad. The railroad was known for numbering their locomotives the year they were built.
This locomotive was used on the Graham Country RR to haul logs out of the Snowbird Mountains to the Bemis Lumber Company mill in Robbinsville, NC. 
When logging operations were shut down in 1948, the railroad continued to handle general freight operations between Robbinsville and Topton, NC, where an interchange was made with the Southern Railway. 
In 1970, the railroad went bankrupt and shut down, and the smokestacks of both 1925 and 1926 were silenced. 
In the 1980s it was sold to Michael Miller at New Centerville, PA, who then sold it to the Case Scenic Railroad. 
No. 1926 arrived at Cass in June 2010. When the engine arrived at the Cass Scenic Railroad it was not being considered for restoration, but rather for parts, which will be used to (hopefully) repair former Meadow River Lumber Company No. 7. 
Today, the locomotive is stored at the Cass Scenic Railroad, albeit as a shell, and currently awaiting a restoration.
Category:Built in 1926
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Shay locomotives
Category:American locomotives
Category:Lima locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Logging locomotives