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2. East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad

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   The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Transportation Company was chartered by the Tennessee General Assembly on May 24, 1866. Lack of financial backing led to the venture's failure, and the railroad was abandoned in 1874. The Cranberry Iron Company acquired the line between 1876 and 1879, and designated the railroad one of its subsidiaries.

3. Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum - Wikipedia

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   4119 Cromwell Rd. Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. Coordinates. 35°04′00″N85°12′23″W / 35.066667°N 85.206389°W. President. Tim Andrews. Website. www.tvrail.com. The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (reporting mark TVRM) [ 1 ] is a railroad museum and heritage railroad in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

4. Tweetsie Railroad - Wikipedia

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   Tweetsie Railroad. 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. [1] The park also features a variety of amusement ...

5. Southern Railway 630 - Wikipedia

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   35°3′43″N85°15′1″W / 35.06194°N 85.25028°WSouthern Railway 630 is a 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in February 1904 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Richmond, Virginia for the Southern Railway (SOU) as a member of the Ks-1 class. It was primarily assigned to haul freight trains on the Murphy ...

6. East Tennessee Railway - Wikipedia

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   The current standard gauge railroad is a remnant of a larger, narrow gauge railroad, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad, chartered in 1866 to haul iron ore from Cranberry, North Carolina to Johnson City across the Appalachian Mountains. Through an acquisition and track extensions, the railroad grew to serve Boone, North ...

7. North Carolina Transportation Museum - Wikipedia

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   NCTM Back Shop. The museum was founded in 1977, when the Southern Railway deeded 4 acres (16,000 m 2) of land to North Carolina for a transportation museum. Two years later, another 53 acres (210,000 m 2) was added to the original donation; the entirety of the railway's largest former steam locomotive repair shops.

8. New Hope Valley Railway - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.triangletrain.com. The New Hope Valley Railway is a heritage railroad in Bonsal, North Carolina operated by the North Carolina Railway Museum, Inc., an all-volunteer, nonprofit, and tax exempt educational and historical organization. The railroad consists of a total of five miles of track between the communities of Bonsal, North ...

9. Blowing Rock, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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   Another tourist attraction in Blowing Rock is the Tweetsie Railroad theme park, which is home to the only operational narrow-gauge railroad in 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 ...