Area less than one acre Year built 1917 | NRHP Reference # 92000147 Added to NRHP 12 March 1992 | |
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Location Tweetsie RR theme park, jct. of Tweetsie RR Rd. and US 321, near Blowing Rock, North Carolina Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works | ||
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad Locomotive No. 12, also known as Tweetsie Locomotive #12, is a historic locomotive located near Blowing Rock, Watauga County, North Carolina. It was built in 1917 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad. It is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive of the ten-wheeled 4-6-0 type. The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ceased operations in 1950, and Locomotive #12 is the only one of the railroad's narrow gauge engines still in existence. The locomotive is located at the Tweetsie Railroad theme park.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Locomotive No. 12 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA