Tweetsie 2-8-2 190 - a photo on Flickriver

Tweetsie 2-8-2 190

            Reproduced 35mm Slide
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Blowing Rock, NC in Summer 1975

The Tweetsie Railroad began as a simple tourist line operating on three short miles of narrow guage track in western North Carolina in 1957.  Today, the Tweetsie Railroad is a full-blown theme park.  It was conceived by the same man that would later start another theme park in Tennessee - Silver Dollar City, which became Dollywood after Dolly Parton became an investor.  

The Tweetsie was the nickname of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina, a narrow gauge line that ran from northeast Tennessee down into southwestern North Carolina.  The part today that is the tourist line and theme park was originally abandoned in 1950.

Tweetsie 4-8-2 #190 was built by Baldwin in 1943 for the White Pass & Yukon under contract from the US Army.  It was purchased by the Tweetsie in 1960 when tourist demand was too much for #12 to handle alone.  This unit is still in operation today.

Taken in: United States / North Carolina / Boone / Sorrento Skies (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1975

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