Re: How about NG places in the US? - Lonely Planet’s l-best U.S. places to visit in 2016
| February 11, 2016 11:56AM |
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jcpatten Wrote:
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> Doe River Gorge was a name I was trying to come up
> with, but my brain just wasn't working right.
A Christian camp owns the entire ROW from the bottom of the gorge at Tunnel 2, all the way up through the tunnels and bridges at the top of the gorge where is actually crosses the Doe River twice. The tracks we re-laid in there a few years after abandonment for a tourist trap that operated on a shoestring until it imploded in the mid-70s.
The current owner has done a lot of things there, allowing the ET&WNC historical society folks to come in along with many other volunteers to re-lay track and do a lot of work. they have a small critter capable of pulling some flat cars with seats that were donated by Six Flags a few years ago. They run trains for the public once a year. They also have some speeders. The two times I've gone up there, I called ahead and got a speeder ride to the top of the gorge, just shy of the twin tunnels at the end of the line (which aren't ready for trains). I donated some money each time afterward.
It's really an amazing trip, one that a train buff will later say, "Why didn't I come here earlier?"
I took this shot on my first trip, at Pardee Point and found a 1930s photo taken from the exact same angle. So I later dropped the train and edge of the cliff above into the photo to prove the angles were matching:
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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> Doe River Gorge was a name I was trying to come up
> with, but my brain just wasn't working right.
A Christian camp owns the entire ROW from the bottom of the gorge at Tunnel 2, all the way up through the tunnels and bridges at the top of the gorge where is actually crosses the Doe River twice. The tracks we re-laid in there a few years after abandonment for a tourist trap that operated on a shoestring until it imploded in the mid-70s.
The current owner has done a lot of things there, allowing the ET&WNC historical society folks to come in along with many other volunteers to re-lay track and do a lot of work. they have a small critter capable of pulling some flat cars with seats that were donated by Six Flags a few years ago. They run trains for the public once a year. They also have some speeders. The two times I've gone up there, I called ahead and got a speeder ride to the top of the gorge, just shy of the twin tunnels at the end of the line (which aren't ready for trains). I donated some money each time afterward.
It's really an amazing trip, one that a train buff will later say, "Why didn't I come here earlier?"
I took this shot on my first trip, at Pardee Point and found a 1930s photo taken from the exact same angle. So I later dropped the train and edge of the cliff above into the photo to prove the angles were matching:
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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