FACT SHEET 2019 Season: Opening Day: Friday, April 5, 2019 Spring Schedule: April 5 to May 31 (open Friday, Saturday and Sunday) Summer Schedule: May 27 to August 25 (open seven days a week) Fall Schedule: August 25 to October 27 (open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and Labor Day Monday) Winter Schedule: November 22 to December 28 (open Friday and Saturday, 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Operating Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Park open until 9:00 p.m. on July 4, 6, 13, 20 & 27) Location: 300 Tweetsie Railroad Lane, Blowing Rock, NC (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 Tweetsie Magic Show Sunset Show 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 Midway Games Bikes & Buggies Himalaya Boat Ride Mouse Mine Carousel Planes & Helicopters Ride Chair Lift Playground Deer Park Round-Up F-80 Ride Tilt-a-Whirl Ferris Wheel Tornado Free Fall Wild West Train Ride Gem Mining Turnpike Cruisers Gold Panning 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 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.