After a 2.5 mile hike up the tracks from Hampton, we reach the first bridge over the Doe River in the Gorge. Barely visible through the trees is the darkness of tunnel #4 across the river. Needles... (more)

This is the spot where the famous "Tweetsie" entered the Doe River Gorge in a tunnel directly behind where I'm standing. Now the Doe River Campground offers occasional rides into the first mile of... (more)

"Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes" ET&WNC's two Consolidation 2-8-0's regularly operated tender-first (hence, the cut-down sides of the coal bunker) on their "eastbound" runs from Johnson City to Eliz... (more)

ET&WNC Alco RS-3 #209 awaiting its next work at Elizabethton, TN || March 1971

ETWNC #210 working at Elizabethton, TN || October 1971

Well-maintained ET&WNC 207 passes the engine house during morning switching at Johnson City. This locomotive is former Southern Railway 630 and has recently been rebuilt and is operated by the Ten... (more)

Tweetsie 4-6-0 No. 11 was one of 4 Class 10 locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1915 for the Eastern Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad. These small narrow gauge locomotives ... (more)

ETWNC 207 leads its train in the snow near Milligan College, TN on the way back to Johnson City from Elizabethton || February 1962

ETWNC 2-8-0 #207 working through a blowing snow storm near Milligan College on its way back to Johnson City in this January 1963 scene. Fast forward 48 years and this engine resides at TVRM in Cha... (more)

ETWNC RS-3 #209 switching at Bemburg, TN || Sept 1971

As a college student one has, shall we say, other interests, and thus one can remind oneself of that when one feels stupid for not taking more pictures of the treasures on one's doorstep.

No doubting the SP heritage of this unit. Unit is gone, track is now moribund. Seems this railroad is and always was a shadow of its former self. "Eat Tomatoes and Wear No Clothes" was a great... (more)

ETWNC 207 taking water at the Bemburg Tank in the winter of 1962.

ETWNC 208 working through Bemburg in May 1961.