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

Two Western North Carolina ... in the U.S. The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City was named the 9th best scenic train ride. Two Western North Carolina favorites were chosen for summer ...

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

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.

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 ...

President and CEO of the North Carolina Railroad Company. "The expansion of our Build Ready Sites program aligns with increasing demand for domestic manufacturing capacity and provides communities ...

A ceremony Friday (May 30) marking the 30th anniversary of the North Carolina’s Piedmont passenger rail service between ...

RALEIGH, N.C., May 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Carolina Railroad Company (NCRR) expands its Build Ready Sites Program (BRS) to include two application rounds in 2025, increasing ...