Great Pics & stories, guys !! My choo-choo story is about Tweetsie Railroad, now a tourist attraction over in Boone, NC, but my mom remembers when it was actually used as a line in western North Carolina & NE Tennessee. It was narrow guage, & when the line went under in the '50s, I guess, a couple of entrepreneurs bought most of the rolling stock & turned it into a theme park. Quite successful, too- if any of you have ever been to Beech Mtn, & skied there, it was originally developed back in the late '60s w/money generated by Tweetsie. I remember going to Tweetsie several times when I was a snot-nosed kid, & always had a big time. I got a cinder in my eye one time, & the old conductor was on me in about 2 seconds getting it out. He looked to be 150-probly been doing that for years. -Sandy G.