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We’ve been nominated for an Emmy Award

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

I 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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The Hook & Eye Line and Blue Ridge Scenic Railway

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As you ride the rails on the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, it’s important to aways be on the lookout as the whistle sounds…because There’s History Around Every Bend.  

The rails this scenic line runs on 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.

The railroad was nicknamed 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.

Eventually in the late 1980’s it was the end of the line. Until the rails were was brought back by Wilds L. Pierce II in the founding of the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway.

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