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Many years ago a railroad ran from Johnson City, Tennessee, over the mountains to the North Carolina high country in Boone.  This narrow-gauge passenger and freight railroad is no more, but it’s remembered in a theme park named for it, the Tweetsie Railroad. Part of the original line is now a multi-use trail between Johnson City and Elizabethton, Tennessee. 

Today we tell its story.

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