Tweetsie Railroad
Rating
Title
Tweetsie Railroad
Caption
Tweetsie Railroad . Between Blowing Rock and Boone , North Carolina . Tweetsie provided transportation for the rugged sections of the Blue Ridge Mountains for over sixty years . She made her last run in 1950 -- now each year Tweetsie carries thousands of happy children and excited parents through gorges , over high trestles into a mountainland of scenic beauty . Color by Jack Reynolds . Pub . by Aerial Photography Services , Municipal Airport Branch , Charlotte , N . C . Made by Dexter Press , Inc . West Nyack , New York . 40565-B .
Creator
Reynolds, Jack.
Publisher
Aerial Photography Services, Charlotte, N.C.
Description
View of a railroad engine and cars passing over a wooden bridge . There are mountains in the background .
Creation Date
1960 ; 1961 ; 1962 ; 1963 ; 1964 ; 1965 ; 1966 ; 1967 ; 1968 ; 1969 ; 1970 ; 1971 ; 1972 ; 1973 ; 1974 ; 1975 ; 1976 ; 1977 ; 1978 ; 1979 ; 1980
Date
ca. 1960-1980
Subject (tgm)
Railroad cars Railroads Railroad bridges Bridges Mountains
Subject Name
Tweetsie Railroad (N.C.)
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Watauga County (N.C.)
DCMI Type
Image
Form General
Postcards
Language
English
Physical Description of Original
89 mm x 140 mm
Medium of Original
Paper
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077) ; collection guide available online at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0077/
Local Identifier
P077;13-279
Citation
"Tweetsie Railroad" in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Digital Collection
North Carolina Postcards
Repository
North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Copyright
Copyright Status Unknown
filename
P077-13-279.tif
Verify
1978-Present?
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