There’s History Around Every Bend 11 - The Hook & Eye Line and Blue Ridge Scenic Railway 

There’s History Around Every Bend 11
The Hook & Eye Line and Blue Ridge Scenic Railway
As you ride the rails on the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, it’s important to always be on the lookout as the whistle sounds...because There’s History Around Every Bend.
The rails this scenic line runs on have a history going back over 160 years. It all starts in 1854 with the first fifty years being a tale full of big ideas, engineering schemes, mergers, bankruptcies and acquisitions.
They nicknamed the railroad the ‘Hook and Eye Line’ because of the unique engineering necessary to overcome the steep mountainous terrain through some of the most picturesque landscape in the Smoky Mountains.
Eventually in the late 1980’s it was the end of the line. Until the rails were was brought back to life by
Wilds L. Pierce II in the founding of the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway.
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