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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. [1]
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.
Ridin' the Tweetsie Railroad is a studio recording released by the Western band Riders in the Sky in 2002. [1] Created with the cooperation of the Tweetsie Railroad theme park in Blowing Rock, North Carolina [1] the album is a mixture of standard train songs (such as "I've Been Working On The Railroad" and "Casey Jones", and new compositions by the band exclusive to this album, including ...
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 ...
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.
Ghost Train is a dark ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England. The attraction incorporates motion simulation , illusion, multisensory effects and live actors to help execute the storyline. It is set in a haunted mid-1980s railway station and mainly focuses on passengers taking the last train to an abandoned crypt .
The Silver Train of Stockholm (Silverpilen) is a ghost train which features in several Swedish urban legends alleging sightings of a silver colored metro train in the Stockholm Metro. [26] The St. Louis Ghost Train, better known as the St. Louis Light , is visible at night along an old abandoned rail line in between Prince Albert and St. Louis ...
A dark ride or ghost train is an indoor amusement ride on which passengers aboard guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music and special effects. [1] Appearing as early as the 19th century, such exhibits include tunnels of love, scary themes and interactive stories.