Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.03.2021
Verlag
Arcadia Publishing (SC)Seitenzahl
208
Maße (L/B/H)
22.6/15.1/1.2 cm
Gewicht
448 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4671-4459-9
The history of the Western North Carolina Railroad is a tale like no other, filled with tragedy, heroism, brains, blood, sweat, tears, nitroglycerin and humor.
Now a tourist mecca, the Great Smoky Mountains were a remote and inaccessible place until well after the Civil War. Using first enslaved and later convict labor the Western North Carolina Railroad and Murphy Branch connected the mountains with the remainder of the state by rail for the first time in 1891. The railroad brought commerce and tourism. Though its vital role was eventually eclipsed by the automobile, tourists and rail buffs continue to come to Bryson City to experience travel by steam train on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.
Local authors Jacob Morgan Plott and Bob Plott tell the story of a line that refused to die.
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