300 Tweetsie Railroad Lane • Blowing Rock, NC 28605
Phone: 800-526-5740 • Fax: 828-264-2234 • tweetsie.com
FACT SHEET
2016 Season:
Opening Day: Friday, April 8, 2016
Spring Schedule: April 8 to May 26
(open Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
Summer Schedule: May 27 to August 21
(open seven days a week)
Fall Schedule: August 22 to October 30
(open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and Labor Day Monday)
Operating Hours:
9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
(Park open until 9:00 p.m. on July 4, 9, 16, 23 & 30)
Location:
300 Tweetsie Railroad Lane, Blowing Rock
(U.S. Highway 321 between Boone and Blowing Rock, N.C.)
Telephone:
800.526.5740 or 828.264.9061
Email & Website:
[email protected]; tweetsie.com
Social Media:www.Facebook.com/Tweetsie
www.Twitter.com/TweetsieRR
www.Instagram.com/tweetsierr
www.youtube.com/tweetsierr
Size of Park:
200 acres
Number of Rides:
14
Employees:250
Opened:
July 4, 1957
Live Shows:
Wild West Train Adventure
Diamond Lil’s Can-Can Revue
Hopper and Porter’s™ Musical Celebration
Miner’s Mountain Magic Show
Sunset Show
Tweetsie Country Clogging Jamboree
Shops:
The Company Store
Gem Mine Shop
General Store
Happy Trails Toy Shop
Jamie Leigh’s Antique Photo Parlor
Photo Depot
Sign & Glass Shop
Tweetsie Junction Store
Western Mercantile
Rides & Attractions:
Arcade and Shooting Gallery
Boat Ride
Carousel
Chair Lift
Deer Park
F-80 Ride
Ferris Wheel
Free Fall
Gem Mining
Gold Panning
Midway Games
Mouse Mine
Planes & Helicopters Ride
Playground
Round-Up
Tilt-a-Whirl
Tornado
Wild West Train Ride
Turnpike Cruisers
Tweetsie Jail
Food:
Arcade Wagon
Cowboy Cantina
Dippin’ Dots®
Feed & Seed
Funnel Factory
Miner’s Diner
Mountain Ice Cream
Sparky’s Southwestern & Barbecue
Tweetsie Fudge Works
Tweetsie Palace Saloon
2016 Special Events:
Letterland at Tweetsie
David Holt and the Lightning Bolts
Day Out With Thomas™
Fireworks Extravaganza Cool Summer Nights
Dora the Explorer™&
Go, Diego, Go!™
K-9s in Flight Frisbee® Dogs
Riders In The Sky
Railroad Heritage Weekend
Ghost Train® Halloween Festival
Last Day of 2016 Season
May 3-5, 10-12; Park open 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 29; Concerts at Noon and 3:00 p.m.
June 10-19
July 4; Park open until 9:00 p.m., Fireworks at 9:30 p.m.
July 9, 16, 23 & 30; Park open until 9:00 p.m.
July 15-17; Appearances at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
July 23-31; Shows at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
(Saturday shows at 7:00 p.m.)
August 6-7; Concerts at Noon and 3:00 p.m.
August 27-28
Friday and Saturday nights September 23-24,30, October 1, 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-29; 7:30p.m. to 11:30p.m.
October 30
Engine No. 12:
• Authentic narrow-gauge steam locomotive
• Built in 1917 by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, PA
• Original Cost - $14,000
• Only survivor of 13 East Tennessee & Western North Carolina
Railroad narrow-gauge steam locomotives
• Size: 54 feet long, 8 feet 4 inches wide, 12 feet 6 inches tall
• Weight: More than 60 tons
• Power: Coal-fired 54 inch-wide steel boiler running under
180 pounds of pressure
• Water tank capacity: 3,000 gallons
• Coal capacity: 7 tons
• Total working weight with coal and water: 82.5 tons
• Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1992
Engine No. 190:
• Authentic narrow-gauge steam locomotive
• Built in 1943 by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, PA
• Used in Alaska during World War II by U.S. Army
Transportation Corps
• Later put it into service on the White Pass & Yukon Railroad,
where it was called the “Yukon Queen”
• Brought to Tweetsie Railroad in 1960
• Size: 62 feet long, 8 feet 5 inches wide, 12 feet 2 inches tall
• Power: Coal-fired, 60 inch-wide steel boiler running under
185 pounds of pressure
• Water tank capacity: 4,000 gallons
• Coal capacity: 9 tons
• Total working weight with coal and water: 105 tons