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avoid the tremeadous expense ineideut to tunnel building, which 

 resulted in some spectacular railroad construction. For example: At 

 the cut through tlie '.'Long Arm of Curry He," shown in one of the 

 accompanying pictures, it was .necessary to reverse two thirty-four 

 degree curves on a substantial grade, without any intervening tan- 

 gent (which, as railway engineering is taught, is an impossible rail- 

 road proposition) in order to get around the point of the mountain 

 and cross the river. There are two thirty-six degree curves on the 

 main line, whieh is the maximum curvature. This excessive curva- 

 ture required special motive power. The ordinary direct-connected 

 locomotive would not take the curves, and the distance involved was 

 too gi-eat to operate geared locomotives economically or successfully, 

 which resulted in the company 's having designed special mallet-type 

 locomDtives, which were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 

 Philadelphia, and which have performed the service most satisfac- 



As before noted, the Little Elver railroad starts at Walland, Teun., 

 which is at the end of a ten-mile plug of the Knoxville & Augusta 

 railroad, a branch of the Southern Eailway, extending from Marys- 

 vUle, Tenn. Marysville is eighteen miles southeast of Knoxville, 

 where the main line of this division starts. Direct connections are 

 made for Little Eiver railroad points with through service trains on 

 all divisions of the Southern reaching Knoxville. 



In connection with this article are several pictures illustrating but 

 inadequately the marvelous picturesque features of this lumber and 

 logging railroad. In rare beauty the scenery along the line can 

 scarcely be surpassed by any of the famous scenic routes in the 

 country. It is only within the last few years that even the residents 

 nearby Knoxville and other cities have learned of the wonderfully 

 alluring features of this Great Smoky region, and especially along 

 the route of the Little Eiver railroad. Now they are taking advan- 



"THE NARROWS" OF LITTLE RIVER. .ALONG WHICH THE RAIL- 

 ROAD RUNS 



torily. The bridges on the main line are all of steel construction, 

 with concrete piers and abutments. Attractive station houses or 

 shelters are provided at all the stations along the line. 



The motive power of the railroad consists of one maUet-type 

 engine, three Shay geared locomotives, one special direct-connected 

 locomotive and two other direct-connected locomotives, seven in all. 



The rolling stock comprises twenty-eight 80,000-pound capacity log- 

 ging cars; seven 60,000-pound capacity flat cars; three 60,000-pound 

 capacity service cars; two passenger coaches; two observation cars; 

 and one automobile speeder. This rolling stock was specially de- 

 signed and constructed so as to take the excessive curves, provisions 

 being made for a very wide swing of the coupling device. 



The entire road is standard gauge laid with sixty-pound steel. It 

 is rock ballasted, has oak ties, and compares favorably with the con- 

 struction of any first-class trunk line railroad. The geared locomo- 

 tives are operated above Elkmont, where the curvature often exceeds 

 thirty-six degrees, and involves grades as high as ten per cent. 



PLANK LOG SLIDES BY MEANS OF WHICH LOGS ARE MOVED TO 

 RAILROAD 



tage of both the railroad and its several summer resort hotels and 

 club-houses scattered along the line, and thousands of summer resi- 

 dents and excursionists are transported over the road to various 

 points for rest and recreation during the entire summer season. At 

 Sunshine, near Walland, are many cottages privately owned, and 

 others are maintained by some charitable organizations of Knoxville 

 as a place for recreation for working women and children. Nineteen 

 miles above Walland near Lyon Springs is a well patronized hotel 

 and medicinal spring. Near Elkmont is a fine club-house belonging 

 to the Appalachian Club, and surrounding it is a score or more of 

 attractive cottages. Near this station there was also built this year 

 a large hotel known as "Wonderland," which overlooks a wide 

 stretch of mountain country, and which already has become very 

 popular for health and pleasure seekers. 



For several summers the editor of Haedwood Eecokd has had a 

 tent encampment at the very farthermost end of the main line of 

 the railroad, just above the three forks of the east prong, and ex- 



