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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 .
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.
This is a route-map template for the Tweetsie Railroad, a United States amusement park railroad.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
No. 12 was put up for sale again and was later sold to the Tweetsie Railroad theme park in 1957, where it received a full restoration and began pulling excursion trains around the park on July 4, 1957. [2] Today, No. 12 continues to operate at the Tweetsie Railroad along with former White Pass and Yukon Route 2-8-2 No. 190. [2]
Sold to the Tweetsie Railroad in 1960 (Tweetsie #190, Yukon Queen). [50] Received original #70 tender from Rotary #1 in 1953. [8] [51] Loco #190 sold to Tweetsie R.R. in 1960, with the original White Pass #80 tender (ex-SV #18), [37] instead of either of its previous tenders. Original #190 tender assigned to Rotary #1 in 1953. [8] [51] Scrapped ...
Northbound NC 105, in Linville Southbound NC 105 with overlapping US 221, US 321, and US 421 Truck routes, in Boone North end of NC 105, in Boone. NC 105 follows the general route of the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC), also known as the "Tweetsie," connecting Linville to Boone before a major flood washed away many sections of the railbed in 1940.
OpenRailwayMap (ORM) is an online collaborative mapping project developing a worldwide railway map using technology based on the OpenStreetMap project. The project is part of the OpenStreetMap database, and acts as a renderer for the existing OpenStreetMap database to include additional information for railroad lines worldwide. [2]
The Land of Oz is a theme park based on L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books, located in the resort town of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, US.Carolina Caribbean Corporation opened it in 1970 under the guidance of Grover Robbins, who had been successful with Tweetsie Railroad.