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The park was an instant success. In 1961, he acquired two USATC S118 Class 2-8-2s from the White Pass. The success of Tweetsie prompted him to send one of them, #192, to the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee for a second theme park, called Rebel Railroad. The other, #190, was sent to Tweetsie and still operates there.
Several of the Smoky Mountain Railroad's former locomotives are still in existence. In 1961 steam locomotives #107, a 2-8-0; and #206, a 2-6-0; were sold to "Rebel Railroad", a narrow gauge tourist train line built at nearby Pigeon Forge for static display. Rebel Railroad changed ownership over the years and is today part of the Dollywood theme ...
Rebel Railroad (1961–1963) Goldrush Junction (1964–1974) ... 2013, at the Wayback Machine at Pigeon Forge Department of Tourism This page was last edited on 17 ...
In 1961, shortly after Pigeon Forge officially incorporated, North Carolina brothers Grover and Harry Robbins opened Rebel Railroad in the town's Middle Creek area. The railroad simulated a ride on a Confederate steam train that was under attack by Union soldiers during the Civil War, playing upon the centennial anniversary of the war.
In 1961, Grover and Harry Robbins built another theme park called "Rebel Railroad" in the Smoky Mountains near Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Originally featuring a Civil War theme in connection with the war's centennial, the park was re-themed in 1966 as the Wild West "Goldrush Junction", very similar to Tweetsie Railroad.
In 1961, No. 107 was placed on display in Sevierville along with 2-6-0 No. 206 (Baldwin, 1910) to advertise the Rebel Railroad (later Dollywood Express).In 2025, the locomotive was removed from display at the front entrance of Dollywood and moved to the Knoxville and Holston River Railroad to support the Mountain Ways Foundation.
Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides" of 1961, died Monday. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton’s, on ...
More famous examples include the "Rebel Railroad" in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee which eventually grew into what is known as the Dollywood theme park today and the Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, which is still in operation under that name to this day. The specific difference being that these two operations were built to ...