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Tweetsie Country

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In addition to telling the unique and colorful history of the ET&WNC, this book is a fine reference for ET&WNC fans or modelers. It has many illustrations of the line and rolling stock. Photos and sketches in this book were used as prototypes for several model railroad items in G-scale narrow gauge.

Tweetsie Country by Mallory Hope Ferrell

Tweetsie Country is a handsome pictorial history of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad. ET&WNC, born in the Blue Ridge Mountain country in the 1880s reflects for us today the color and charm of the steam era. Tweetsie Country is the story of the little railroad that could, that over came physical obstacles and the Great Depression to travel the Blue Ridge country bringing the outside world to the mountain folk East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.

While telling the colorful history of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad, this book is an indispensable reference for rail fans or modelers. It contains many illustrations of the line, rolling stock and locomotives. This is a fun, informative and thoroughly useful book.

this helps clarify some of the questions we had about road we live on, which was once main road between Banner Elk and Boone,NC. The railroad line was adjacent to our road before the great flood wiped it out.Interesting.