Tweetsie Railroad: Opening Day 4-2-2021

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Happy Easter!

It has been a long time since I have uploaded a Tweetsie video.

After roughly three months, Tweetsie Railroad opened back up for the 2021 season.

The locomotive pulling the train today was ex: U.S. Army Transportation Co. #190. 190 was built in 1943 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, as a 3 foot narrow gauge, 2-8-2, S118 locomotive for U.S. Army. During World War II the Army took over the White Pass and Yukon Railroad. 190 hauled military supplies from the Yukon territory in Canada to the port in Skagway Alaska. After the war was over, 190 was shifted to regular operations on the White Pass and Yukon Route. In the 1950s 190 was retired and placed in storage in Skagway until 1960. Grover Robins Jr purchased it for his Tweetsie Railroad, sent it Seattle by barge, sent it to North Carolina by train, then sent to the Southern Railway's Hickory shops for restoration, then hauled by truck to Blowing Rock to join locomotive #12 at Tweetsie. #190 has been operating at Tweetsie Railroad ever since.

Some notable features that you will notice that was not the same:
1. The letters on the builders plate are white.
2. The whistle is the 1960-2018 Crosby 3 chime
3. The cars have been renumbered from (14-18) to (1-5). (don't ask me why they did that)

Special thanks to engineer Matt and fireman Jason for putting on a great show that day.

Subscribe to all the other railfans I met that day.

Jonah Snyder
   / @tweetsierailroader  

Railfan and Railroad Productions
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Train Table Railroad
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Caleb Easter Railfan Productions
   / @calebeastertrains  

Train man 8115
   / @tylernyetherailroadguy  

Star City Rails
   / @starcityrails3114  

Cwilliam
   / @cwilliam1999  

Southern8099 Productions
   / @southernproductions-tx6hc  

John Overman
   / @johnoverman5204  

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