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Tweetsie Railroad
The Tweetsie Railroad is a theme park operation located in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. "Tweetsie" harkens back to the original East Tennessee & Western North Carolina narrow gauge common carrier that served the region.
Motive Power
Tweetsie Railroad #190
2-8-2 / Blowing Rock, NC / Aug 1968 / collection
Tweetsie Railroad #190
- builder:Baldwin Locomotive Works
- arrangement:2-8-2 Mikado
- built:1943
- fuel:coal/water
- notes:
- narrow gauge
blt for US Army class S118, 1943
to White Pass & Yukon, WW2
to Tweetsie Railroad theme park, 1960
named "Yukon Queen"
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Links / Sources
- Tweetsie Railroad website