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Tweetsie Railroad is a family-oriented Wild West theme park located between Boone and Blowing Rock, North Carolina, United States. The centerpiece of the park is a 3-mile (4.8 km) ride on a train pulled by one of Tweetsie Railroad's two historic narrow-gauge steam locomotives .
No. 12 was built in February 1917 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad. [2] After retirement in 1940, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ceased operations in 1950 and No. 12 is the only one of the railroad's narrow-gauge engines still in existence.
The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (reporting mark ET&WNC), affectionately called the "Tweetsie" as a verbal acronym of its initials (ET&WNC) but also in reference to the sound of its steam whistles, was a primarily 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad established in 1866 for the purpose of serving the mines at Cranberry, North Carolina.
Tweetsie Railroad operates a variety of narrow-gauge railroad equipment, including East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Locomotive No. 12, a steam locomotive built for the original ET&WNC Railroad in 1915. Visitors to Tweetsie can ride the train for 3 miles (5 km) and enjoy the mountain scenery; the park also contains traditional ...
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Tweetsie Railroad; W. Washington and Plymouth Railroad This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 09:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSM) High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad (HPTD) Kinston and Snow Hill Railroad (KSH) Laurinburg and Southern Railroad (LRS) Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiaries Camp Lejeune Railroad (CPLJ) and State University Railroad (SUR) (Operates the North Carolina Railroad) (NCRR)