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Description
'On the Tweetsie.'
This may look like the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina from this postcard, but it's the theme park called Tweetsie, the engine is a 4-6-0 narrow gauge ten-wheeler built by Baldwin in 1917 for the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. The only narrow gauge steam locomotive survived into preservation from that railroad, like Russell from the Welsh Highland Railway, the engine escaped from the scrappers and was purchased by a group of railfans and operated on a heritage railroad called the Shenandoah Central Railroad, which opened in May 1
953, but rains from Hurricane Hazel washed out the little heritage railroad in October 1954, and No.12 was once again put up for sale.
It wasn't until 1955 when Grover Robbins, an entrepreneur from Blowing Rock, North Carolina, purchased Autry's option and bought the locomotive in August 1955. Robbins moved the No.12 locomotive back to Blowing Rock, North Carolina as the centerpiece of a new "Tweetsie Railroad" tourist attraction, No.12 started operation at the Tweetsie Railroad and the rest is history.
The postcard shows No.12 operating the three-mile line with Combine No.15, former EBT coach 5, and excursion car 11, simple times.
Photo credit:
Gene Aiken
