Author : Jacob Morgan Plott and Bob Plott
Release : 2021
Genre : History
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Smoky Mountain Railways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Smoky Mountain Railways write by Jacob Morgan Plott and Bob Plott. This book was released on 2021. Smoky Mountain Railways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great Smoky Mountains were a remote and inaccessible place with no major highways or railroads until well after the Civil War. Using first enslaved and later convict labor, the Western North Carolina Railroad and Murphy Branch connected the mountains with the remainder of the state by 1891. The railroad brought commerce and tourism, and tourists and rail buffs continue to come to Bryson City to experience travel by steam train on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. The history of this line is a story like no other. It is a tale filled with tragedy, heroism, brains, blood, sweat, tears, nitroglycerin and humor. Local authors Jacob Morgan Plott and Bob Plott tell the story of a line that refused to die.