The ET&WNC in HOn3 - George L Carter Railroad Museum Apr 2019

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5 жыл бұрын

At the George L Carter Railroad Museum on the campus of ETSU, the Mountain Empire Model Railroaders are constructing a model of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina RR in HO scale. The large layout showcases the entire line from Johnson City, TN to Cranberry, NC as it appeared in the railroad's heyday. Although compressed to only eight scale miles, all of the major landmarks of the "Tweetsie" are present and built to exact 1:87 scale. Almost all of the structures are or will be scratch built, as will be an entire fleet of rolling stock. Over the past year the town of Roan Mountain was built, and work is currently underway on the community of Crab Tree. Unfortunately, all but one of the brass Ten-Wheelers has been taken back out of service for various repairs, leaving the layout once again dominated by the reliable Blackstone C-19s.
In this video we follow Linville River Railway 2-8-0s 6 and 5 one a long freight from Johnson City towards Boone, then catch ET&WNC 4-6-0 11 returning to Johnson City with an excursion train. Then just for fun, we see Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania heritage unit hauling a long string of narrow gauge freight cars.
Huge thanks to my friend East Tenn. Firebox Productions for running the trains while I filmed this.
I apologize for my recent hiatus. I was too busy with my final semester at ETSU to chase any trains this spring, but now I've graduated and have some big plans for the remainder of the year. Starting with a trip westward next week...

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@Willysmb44 Жыл бұрын

This is utterly amazing, I so badly want to see this in person someday!

@whistle.productions 5 жыл бұрын

Those engines look very realistic. Great video!

@SmokyMtnSteam 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@4myauto 5 жыл бұрын

Congrats on your graduation! Can’t wait to see what comes in the future!

@SmokyMtnSteam 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@choochoo742 5 жыл бұрын

This video hardly does justice to that layout, I saw it for the first time the other day while at the train show and man it is absolutely amazing, just the shear detail of it is awesome.

@SmokyMtnSteam 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I've been watching the layout grow for the past 4 years, even helping a little myself assembling freight car kits or doing some basic scenery work, and the amount of work and artistry some of the club members can put into it still blows my mind.

@Astro_dreagonz Жыл бұрын

Beautiful are those engines black stone c-19s?

@SmokyMtnSteam Жыл бұрын

They are. The ET&WNC had some very similar 2-8-0s so the Blackstones make for good stand-ins.

@williambryant5946 4 жыл бұрын

The area of Doe River Gorge is as close to the real thing as it gets. It looked like Pardee Point and Hanging Rock were represented on the layout. I went in 2002 and 2003 to the Doe River Christian Camp and rode the train behind the small steam engine they had at that time up the gorge while attending the Tweetsie Annual Convention put on by ET&WNC Historic Society. The group I was with hiked through the gorge up the old roadbed all the way to a tunnel that was collapsed and we couldn't go any farther. I knew the tunnel numbers but can't remember them now. We went through three tunnels, I think; and across two bridges that all remaining of them was the steel. We had to balance on a 12 inch I beam to cross them. We also went to the Cranberry Ore Mine both years and hiked around inside for about 4 hours the first time. That was before the entrance was dinomited closed. I absolutely loved the entire experience both years. This layout brings back these memories and I have an itch to come see it now and revisit the gorge. Great video and kudos to you and all that have been involved with building this awesome layout. 👍

@SmokyMtnSteam 4 жыл бұрын

The museum would love to have you visit, the layout is open almost every Saturday 10-3. The entire gorge is modeled from tunnel 2 to tunnel 5. I hear the camp is just a few more years away from finishing the 4-4-0 they've been restoring for a few years, I bet it'll put on a show when it's done.

@williambryant5946 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokyMtnSteam I thought I had heard they were working on a steam locomotive but wasn't sure. I will have to stay more in touch with goings on there. Do you know anything about the steam locomotive they had at the gorge around 2002, why they had to send it back, who they were leasing it from, how long they had it, what company built it, its original owner what they used it for and where? I knew some of this at one time but it has slipped my mind. I live in NC about 40 miles north of Charlotte so I'm not extremely far away and will have to visit. Any info. about the new loco. and the other one I referred to would be very much appreciated. Also model club information. Many thanks. 👍 wb82043@gmail.com

@SmokyMtnSteam 4 жыл бұрын

@@williambryant5946 The steam locomotive that ran in the gorge previously s a 2-4-4T named "Rachel" that had run at Opryland before it closed and was only a temporary lease. It has been in storage in Texas for many years. The current 4-4-0 they are restoring is a Crown engine built in 1967 for the short-lived Pioneer & Western RR in Florida. It was at Carowinds for some years but I don't know if it ever ran there. It was on static display in Huntsville, AL before coming to the gorge in 2014 or 2015.

@williambryant5946 4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokyMtnSteam How far along are they on the rebuild? I worked for the state at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer three years when I was in high school as assistant to the master mechanic. I learned alot about steam from a couple of very smart men that volunteered there. When I graduated I went out as a contractor type deal and helped Robert Yuill for about a year rebuild the 4-4-0 at the Wilmington And Western Railroad in Wilmington Delaware. He traveled round the country rebuilding steam locomotives for awhile after he had retired from NS as head of the steam shops in Birmingham Alabama having worked there a total of round 40 years he taught me more than I thought I'd ever learn about steam locomotives. Unfortunately I'm not capable of doing such physical work anymore or I would offer my services. I would love to be able to make an old steam locomotive breath, spit, and smoke again. Its always great to see one come back to life. It upsets me that there are no steam locomotives running in Spencer anymore. I helped take the 604 apart when I was in high school in 01, 02 and some of the pieces I took off are still sitting in the shop floor where I left them. I will certainly have to make a trip to the Gorge when they get that locomotive running. Thanks for answering my questions. 👍

@thecarolinianrailfan8339 5 жыл бұрын

I found that heritage unit pulling the narrow gauge cars very funny. Will you be going to the Strasburg Railroad to see #611?

@SmokyMtnSteam 5 жыл бұрын

I almost didn't include that in the video, but it was just too much fun to pass up. As for Strasburg, I already have a ticket for the Sunrise photo shoot on October 6.

@mumumaaaah 5 жыл бұрын

SmokyMtnSteam will you do more videos on tweetie?

@easttenn.fireboxproduction3329 5 жыл бұрын

Eddie wise I am not going to speak for the SMS channel but I have heard they will be back from time to time.

@SmokyMtnSteam 5 жыл бұрын

@@mumumaaaah I will