We’ve been nominated for an Emmy Award

Bysteveprocko

There’s History Around Every Bend nominated for an Emmy Award.

We are am pleased to announce that There’s History Around Every Bend has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the Historical/Cultural category for the episode titled “The Hook & Eye Line and Blue Ridge Scenic Railway”.

If you have not seen the documentary – it tells the story of how the railroad came to Blue Ridge, Georgia in the 1800s through the founding of today’s Blue Ridge Scenic Railway. The rails this scenic line runs on have a history going back over 160 years. It all starts in 1854 with the first fifty years being a tale full of big ideas, engineering schemes, mergers, bankruptcies and acquisitions. They nicknamed the railroad the ‘Hook and Eye Line’ because of the unique engineering necessary to overcome the steep mountainous terrain through some of the most picturesque landscape in the Smoky Mountains.

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