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Along The ET&WNC Volume 6 Passenger Cars By Johnny Graybeal Soft Cover
Along the ET&WNC
Volume 6: Passenger Cars
By Johnny Graybeal
Softbound 213 Pages
Copyright 2005
Table of Contents
Introduction
The New Kid In Town
The Not-So-Gay Nineties
Expansion in Every Direction
The Sort-of-Roaring Twenties
Excursion Trains & the "T" Word
Mixed Trains, Remember Pearl Harbor
& Executive Specials
Arrivals & Departures
Modeling the Passenger Cars
Selected Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad offered passenger service during most of its 70-year history. In the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, passenger service was visibly more important than freight service. Passengers brought in far less money than freight, but a Railroad's passenger train service was usually the pride of the company.
This volume will examine the passenger trains of the ET&WNC and the Linville River Railway. For the first twenty years of the ET&WNC's existence, they ran a simple one or two-car train back and forth between Johnson City TN, and Cranberry NC. After the turn of the century, the service was improved, and extended after the Linville River Ry was purchased. Newer cars were purchased, and a parlor car joined the roster. By World War I, the railroad was using cars that were just as modern as anything on the standard gauge railroads. The company had the reputation of having the finest narrow gauge passenger train in the country. The two-railroad system extended to Boone, NC, a total of 67 miles of trackage. The scenery along the line was beautiful, and thousands of people came to ride their excursion trains. Unfortunately, the railroad was susceptible to highway competition, and the passenger trains gradually faded away. Floods and declining revenues eventually put the narrow gauge out of business.
During the Nineteenth Century, the railroads were big news in the newspapers of East Tennessee. Fortunately, some of the weekly papers from Johnson City and Elizabethton are available on microfilm for study. Stories abounded in these newspapers of excursions, wrecks, and extravaganzas. The officials of the ET&WNC and the crews of the trains were often portrayed as larger than life figures, and their every move at and away from work was documented. These stories are told here, many for the first time in a century. A lot of people worked for the railroad, and you will meet some of the lesser-known ones here.
The best means of tracking the passenger trains is through the use of railroad timetables. Through the gathering of schedules from the Official Guide to the Railways, newspapers, and employee tables, over 120 of the 127 timetables that the ET&WNC issued over the years are mentioned in this volume. Government records also reveal the rise and fall of the fortunes of the passenger service. The origins of all of the passenger cars are examined, along with the rules and regulations that make a railroad a safe place. Finally, we will briefly examine how the modeler can reproduce the cars of the ET&WNC/LR in small scale.
Your seat is waiting in the parlor car. All Aboard!
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