Great Scenic Railway Journeys — Season 1, Episode 6: Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 8 episodes
Episode synopsis
Travel on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad through Western North Carolina, through the haunted Cowee Tunnel, across the 790-foot Fontana Lake trestle and hear how the railroad tracks came within 48 hours of being torn up and abandoned.
About Great Scenic Railway Journeys
Travels 13 of the most scenic tourist railways in the eastern United States. Also shows how the Great Smoky Mountains Railway staged the massive train wreck in the movie "The Fugitive," in a short clip entitled: "The making of The fugitive train wreck."