And while the rails were taken up in Newton Falls and elsewhere many years ago, an original, stone whistle post still stands in the ground of the track bed right-of-way just north of the depot to ...

Norfolk Southern’s Norfolk & Western heritage locomotive, ES44AC No. 8103, will take part in the 75th anniversary celebration ...

There’s a kind of calm that settles in once the train starts moving. The usual rush fades, replaced by steady motion and ...

Norfolk Southern has restored rail lines from Newport, Tennessee, to Asheville. The project was entirely funded by Norfolk ...

Multiple people were killed when a private jet crashed into a San Diego neighborhood Thursday morning, adding to the long ...

A summer fun-themed roundup of 10Best Readers Choice lists included several options right here in Western NC. Here's where.

Landworx Construction Contractors, which is based in Mississippi, and Bradshaw’s Investments LLC, based on George Hildebran ...

Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, North Carolina isn’t just another amusement park—it’s a time machine disguised as 200 ...

Tweetsie Railroad opened as a tourist attraction in 1957, making it one of North Carolina’s first theme parks and the state’s only Wild West theme park. The park was the brainchild of Grover Robbins ...

Route that African Americans fleeing the Ku Klux Klan took from Cross Anchor, S.C., to western North Carolina to establish ... the treasury by working for the railroad and in nearby mines.

WorldAtlas highlighted seven Western North Carolina routes in its "10 Best ... Explore the Indian Caves, a short hike that follows the railroad tracks across from the river through the Nantahala ...

North Carolina is a unique state in that ... especially at sunrise or sunset. On the Western edge of the Great Smoky Mountains is Bryson City, home to the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Although ...