Hiwassee Train Excursion

[Southern Breeze]

Today we went on the Hiwassee Rail adventures excursion which is done by the Tennessee railroad Museum-
http://www.tvrail.com/hiwassee/index.php
The trip is a bit more than four hours there and back, running from Etowah Tenn. to Copperhill. There's also a two hour layover spent in Copperhill for shopping, eating etc. All in all, a six hour trip. Along the way the railroad makes a 360 degree loop around Bald mtn before crossing itself

Crossing the Hiwasse River at Reliance

Appalacha power house. Water runs 8 miles down stream through a tunnel from the Appalache Dam to here

Going under the trestle where the track crosses itself

Looking down at the track and river from atop the loop


I'll post more pics later. Rain in Copperhill and on the return trip limited photo ops.

[SFCRick]

nice pics of what looks like a fun ride

[Southern Breeze]

A few more.
Appalacha Dam

Copperhill yard,turning the locomotive around

Tennessee/Ga line. It runs through the middle of town,seperating Copperhill Tenn from Macaysville Ga.

Occoee River, just above Copperhill.

[Kilted Carver]

Copperhill is a cool little town, Makaysville, and Blue Ridge are all nice, especially during the fall.
We are practically neighbors if you reside in Chatsworth, I live in Ft. O.

Cool pics of a cool trip.

[Southern Breeze]

Upper Hiwasse River gorge.

[Southern Breeze]

Waterfall on the back of a restaurant in Copperhill.

Restored depot and caboose in Etowah.

[David Dalglish]

Cool pic's

[cessna152towser]

Lovely pics, fabulous scenery.

[Lady M]

That's quite a spooky looking area, thanks for sharing!

[Dall_Piobaire]

Sounds like a fun trip!

We used to have a steam engine that ran out of, um stanley I think. They would do an hour excursion or so. When my parents place wasn't surrounded by all the new Subdivisions, just woods, you would hear the steam whistle blow, echoing through the woods, it was quite ghostly. At first I thought I was having some strange past life flashback, but no, it was quite cool really. They stopped running it many years ago, a shame!

It makes one think of a time when all you might here was the whistle of a train, or a river boat, maybe the clip clop of horses drawing carriages. They should do a mountains to the coast, whistle stop tour, an overnighter. All the different foods and scenery. That is one thing North Carolina is good for, vastly different terrain