Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-20
OVER THE c. c. e. o.

Messrs. G. H. O'Leary and John f.
Gordon Of Yorkville, were among the
excursionists who took the trip over
the Carolina, Clinchfeld and Ohio
railroad last week, leaving Yorkyille
Thursday morning and returning Sat
urday night. They were both delight
ed with the trip and are agreed that
they would not have missed 1t fer any
thing in reason.
Speaking of his experience yester-
day, Mr.. O'Leary said the railroad It
self Is a wonder because OF the nu
merous engineering problems that
were solved in it's building, the scenery
along the route Is surely as grand as
| Is to be found anywhere in the world,
and the hospitable attention that the
excursionists received at the hands OF
the railroad people in charge and OF
the people along the route, particularly
up in Tennessee and Virginia, was not
the least important feature Of the trip.
1--WE struck the excursion train at
Shelby, to which place 1t had come
from Charlotte over the Seaboard AIT
Line" said Mr.. O'Leary, land proceed
ed on to Bostic, where We got on the
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio. 1t was
a Seaboard train, consisting OF four
Pullmans, a dining car and baggage
car, III CIldl &c VI NIL L. ~ -
Richmond, district agent for the Sea-
board, with Mr.. Charles T.. Mandel
and Mr.. Pettyplace, superintendent
representing the new system.
TT was very unlike an ordinary ex-
cursion, in that the train was run
solely for the pleasure and satisfaction
of the excursionists. The train just
took its own good time. II there was
anything that the excurstonistS espe-
cially desired to see, all they had to
do was to let the fact be known, and
the train would stop until everybody
was ready to go on. There was
somebody to answer any and every
question that could be asked about the
road, about the mountains, about the
country generally, or about anything
else, and the officials seemed to take
a genuine pleasure in giving informa-
ton.
THE change from the Seaboard to the
C. C. & O., at Bostic was surprisingly
noticeable. The Seaboard itself Is
pretty good road and in pretty good
condition. but the c. c. & O., reminds
one Of a long, level stretch or the
Southern between Gastonia and Char-
lotte. The grade Is almost impercep-
tible and the track and roadbed, only
completed short time, are as solid
and substantial and as true as II they
were the development Of generations
of effort.
II could not begin to describe the
road. l have seen numerous descrip-
tions of it by professional writer's, and
l have noticed that each and every
one has found himself compelled to
acknowledge his inability to do the
subject justice. / am not surprised.
1t would require volumes to describe
the windings Of the roadbed, to say
nothing of the grandeur Of the scenery.
The most striking features Of the
route, however, are probably to be
found along the twenty three miles
of windings necessary to make a dis
tance of about Al miles across the top
Of the range. In the last seventeen
miles of this distance there are seven
teen tunnels, and at one place We got
out and climbed $50 feet to the track
above and waited for the train, which
had to run nine miles before 1t
got back to where it could pick us up.
On this side, we could see the whole
eastern side of the range, and on the
other side we could see the whole
western side.
For miles and miles along the Toe
and Nollichucky rivers the road runs
along the side Of the mountain, with
rock walls running from so to 200 feet
on one side and down from so to 200