Little River Railroad and Lumber Company, Townsend, TN

A video tour of the Little River Railroad and Lumber Company. Ride down the rails from the Great Smoky Mountains and see the places and hear the stories about this golden era in East Tennessee history.
The Little River Lumber Company and the Little River Railroad operate a museum in Townsend, Tennessee, collecting, preserving and exhibiting the history of these companies, and of the people in this region.
Townsend was the site of the sawmill, and headquarters of this operation, which logged huge portions of what is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, from 1901 until 1939.
The Little River became famous far beyond its remote mountain origins, due in large part to its innovations in railroad motive power, which included invention of the first 2-4-4-2 articulated Mallet, and the smallest 4-6-2 Pacific ever built for North American standard gauge.

[@JackieHatcher]

The museum is free to all open 10 to 5 may to october. April weekends and nov. Weekends for alls enjoyment. The history is awesome

[@mebeanonymousonytube]

Very nice Dan.
Those people made this Country and we aught to be inspired by their history.

[@Rebel9668]

Their little Pacific locomotive #110 still runs up in Michigan on a line called Little River Railroad.

[@EddieMillerStudios]

Yep. I live in Coldwater, and I've gotten to ride behind #110 a couple times.

[@DanTraveling]

I agree, thanks for the comments :)

[@crocowithaglocko5876]

Cool
This is cool

[@dovercastbrandon9637]

What is the song that is played on the front porch at the beginning of the video

[@MichaelDavis-rt1qk]

Are you from Townsend Tennessee

[@DanTraveling]

No, I live in Virginia. Originally I was from Clinton, TN and Knoxville, TN when I attended UT though so Go Vols