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Charles Grattan Price Jr. collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916/1997, bulk 1948/1956 1.53 cubic feet 2 boxes, 1 flat file 61.9 Megabytes 1 digital file comprising a 00:05:23 video recording

Price, Charles Grattan, Jr., 1919-1996
The Charles Grattan Price Jr. Collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916-1997 (bulk 1948-1956), comprises correspondence, printed material, and photographs related to the Shenandoah Central Railroad's narrow gauge engine Tweetsie (locomotive #12) and the one-mile Tweetsie Route, a scenic museum line, in Penn Laird, Virginia that operated from 1953 to 1954.
  1. James Madison University

Engineer Sherman Pippin and unidentified trainman in Locomotive 10 on ET&WNC, 1949

Text on photo: "Tweetsie's" crew loved the little train as much as did the mountain people who depended on it for contact with the outside world. Engineer Sherman Pippin was as the throttle of No. 10 and No. 12 for some 20 years before the railroad was discontinued. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.

  1. James Madison University
  2. Charles Grattan Price Jr. collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916/1997, bulk 1948/1956
  3. Photographs, 1949/1954
  4. Tweetsie, North Carolina and Tennessee, 1949

Engineer Sherman Pippin and unidentified trainman in Locomotive 10 on ET&WNC on a bridge crossing a river, 1949

Text on photo: "Over the river and through the wood" went "Tweetsie" on her trips from Johnson City, Tenn., to Boone, N.C. in former days. Engineer Sherman Pippin stopped his train so passengers aboard for a day's outing could take pictures like the one above. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT P. O. BOX 2719 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.

  1. James Madison University
  2. Charles Grattan Price Jr. collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916/1997, bulk 1948/1956
  3. Photographs, 1949/1954
  4. Tweetsie, North Carolina and Tennessee, 1949

Photographs, 1949/1954

Series 3: Photographs, 1949-1954, primarily comprises black-and-white photographs of Tweetsie and the Stonewall Jackson train along the Tweetsie Route in Penn Laird. Railroad employees and passengers are photographed in the train and inside the depot. Photographs of the May 29, 1953 Golden Spike Ceremony are also included. Six photographs document Tweetsie when it was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company. Many of the photographs are captioned with people, places, and dates identified. Postcards and color photograph negatives are included. Duplicate copies of photographs and postcards were retained.

  1. James Madison University
  2. Charles Grattan Price Jr. collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916/1997, bulk 1948/1956

Tweetsie locomotive and cars on ET&WNC crossing a bridge over the Doe River, 1949

Text on photo: "Tweetsie" went where even a sure-footed burro would fear to tread. Here the little train starts across the Doe River on one of the many bridges built by ET&WNC R.R. Co. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.

  1. James Madison University
  2. Charles Grattan Price Jr. collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916/1997, bulk 1948/1956
  3. Photographs, 1949/1954
  4. Tweetsie, North Carolina and Tennessee, 1949

Tweetsie locomotive and cars on ET&WNC past a corn field near Newland, North Carolina, 1949

Text on photo: "Tweetsie" was a familiar part of the rural landscape in Western North Carolina, as this photograph taken near Newland, N.C., shows. (N.C. News Bureau Photo) - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.

  1. James Madison University
  2. Charles Grattan Price Jr. collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916/1997, bulk 1948/1956
  3. Photographs, 1949/1954
  4. Tweetsie, North Carolina and Tennessee, 1949

Tweetsie locomotive and cars on ET&WNC through the Appalachian Mountains and Doe River Gorge, 1949

Text on photo: The route between Johnson City, Tenn., and Boone, N.C. presented some of the most rugged territory in the Appalachian mountains. Here the railroad skirts the Doe River Gorge on a ledge of solid rock. (N.C. News Bureau Photo - typed and affixed with tape; Property of C. G. Price, Jr. 276 Franklin Street Harrisonburg, Virginia - handwritten and address label; NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BUREAU DEPT. CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - stamped.

  1. James Madison University
  2. Charles Grattan Price Jr. collection on Tweetsie and the Shenandoah Central Railroad, 1916/1997, bulk 1948/1956
  3. Photographs, 1949/1954
  4. Tweetsie, North Carolina and Tennessee, 1949

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