History Ride / TweetsieRailroad

* InjunCountry: The latter half of the train ride's Wild West Show takes place here. Rather than have UnfortunateImplications and name a real tribe, the land is home to the fictional Tweetsie Tribe.

* TheSavageIndian: During Fred Kirby's tenure as The Marshal, the Native characters were portrayed as this. After he left, the park took notice of the UnfortunateImplications of this trope and abandoned the concept of an Indian attack. There are still Native American characters at Tweetsie, but are goofy, light-hearted characters much like the Cowboys.

The TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens saw the expansion of Tweetsie Railroad, with new rides and annual events being added. In 2002, Day Out With Thomas premiered to rave reception and WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine merchandise became a mainstay at the various gift shops while the Day Out With Thomas event became an annual tradition. The western/comedy band Music/RidersInTheSky are perennial guest performers at the park, and the park, while small and not as notable as larger theme parks like Dollywood or Kings Dominion, has achieved both regional fame and a cult following, especially among rail enthusiasts, historical re-enactors, and to a much lesser extent, SteamPunk fans (mostly from nearby Appalachian State University, also located in Boone).

* TropeCodifier: For heritage steam railroads in the United States. American heritage railroads had existed in America before Tweetsie Railroad, but Tweetsie helped popularize the concept. In the TurnOfTheMillennium, Tweetsie was one of the very first American heritage railroads to hold a "Day Out With Thomas" event, featuring a life-sized replica of WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine at the head of the train (Thomas himself is not a functional locomotive, and is actually pushed by Engine No. 190). While "Day Out With Thomas" events had been commonplace among British heritage railways since TheEighties, they were almost unheard in America of until Tweetsie popularized it.

* TheOtherDarrin: The Marshal, his Posse, and the various members of the Tweetsie Tribe, as well as townsfolk. Fred Kirby played The Marshal from TheSixties until the early 1980's, and since then, the characters of Tweetsie are played by local actors and students from nearby Appalachian State University, resulting in a high turnover rate. Averted with the actual railroad staff, since authentic steam locomotives need a licensed engineer (who is trained to operate steam locomotives), an actual conductor, and workers to operate the engine workship. Seeing as those are hard to find, most of the actual railroad staff have been around for years, sometimes even decades.

* {{UsefulNotes/WorldWarI}}: The main theme of 2019's Ghost Train.

* {{UsefulNotex/WorldWarI}}: The main theme of 2019's Ghost Train.

* WorldWarI: The main theme of 2019's Ghost Train.

* WorldWarOne: The main theme of 2019's Ghost Train.

* MythologyGag: Phineas P. Peppercorn, the main character of Tweetsie's MedicineShow revue, which had been done away with around 2000, was brought back as a MadScientist for 2011's Ghost Train.

** NotUsingTheZWord: In both instances, the zombies are referred to as "mutants" and are the result of a virus, but otherwise are typical zombies.

* Anime/DigimonAdventure: When "Digimon: The Movie" hit theaters around 2000, Tweetsie Railroad briefly promoted it and sold merchandise.

The Ghost Train Festival in October is an example of the following tropes.

Tweetsie Railroad has examples of the following tropes....

* TheHunter: The main theme of The Ghost Train show in both 2015 and 2016.

* ZombieApocalypse: The main theme of 2009's Ghost Train

* MedicineShow: Tweetsie Railroad actually had one of these until TheTurnOfTheMillennium, although they sold concessions instead of snake oil.

A small, but treasured frontier ThemePark nestled in the hills near Boone, North Carolina, Tweetsie Railroad was established in the summer of 1957, making it the second oldest theme park in the South. Tweetsie Railroad started out as one of the earliest heritage railroads in the United States and helped popularize the concept of heritage steam railroads in America (they were already fairly popular in Britain).

The TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens saw the expansion of Tweetsie Railroad, with new rides and annual events being added. In 2002, Day Out With Thomas premiered to rave reception and ThomasTheTankEngine merchandise became a mainstay at the various gift shops while the Day Out With Thomas event became an annual tradition. The western/comedy band Music/RidersInTheSky are perennial guest performers at the park, and the park, while small and not as notable as larger theme parks like Dollywood or Kings Dominion, has achieved both regional fame and a cult following, especially among rail enthusiasts, historical re-enactors, and to a much lesser extent, SteamPunk fans (mostly from nearby Appalachian State University, also located in Boone).

* TropeCodifier: For heritage steam railroads in the United States. American heritage railroads had existed in America before Tweetsie Railroad, but Tweetsie helped popularize the concept. In the TurnOfTheMillennium, Tweetsie was one of the very first American heritage railroads to hold a "Day Out With Thomas" event, featuring a life-sized replica of ThomasTheTankEngine at the head of the train (Thomas himself is not a functional locomotive, and is actually pushed by Engine No. 190). While "Day Out With Thomas" events had been commonplace among British heritage railways since TheEighties, they were almost unheard in America of until Tweetsie popularized it.

The TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens saw the expansion of Tweetsie Railroad, with new rides and annual events being added. In 2002, Day Out With Thomas premiered to rave reception and ThomasTheTankEngine merchandise became a mainstay at the various gift shops while the Day Out With Thomas event became an annual tradition. The children's country band Riders in the Sky are perennial guest performers at the park, and the park, while small and not as notable as larger theme parks like Dollywood or Kings Dominion, has achieved both regional fame and a cult following, especially among rail enthusiasts, historical re-enactors, and to a much lesser extent, SteamPunk fans (mostly from nearby Appalachian State University, also located in Boone).

* CountryMusic: Classic Country-Western Music from the 1950's and 1960's often plays during the train ride, JohnnyCash is a favorite of the Tweetsie staff. Around 2010, the actual country tracks were replaced with generic bluegrass instrumental music, although said music still fits very well. It is assumed that due to possible copyright infringement concerns, they stopped playing Johnny Cash over the PA system of the train.

A small, but treasured frontier ThemePark nestled in the hills near Boone, North Carolina, Tweetsie Railroad was established in the summer of 1957, making it the second oldest theme park in the South (the oldest being Disneyland, established in 1955). Tweetsie Railroad started out as one of the earliest heritage railroads in the United States and helped popularize the concept of heritage steam railroads in America (they were already fairly popular in Britain).

* DigimonAdventure: When "Digimon: The Movie" hit theaters around 2000, Tweetsie Railroad briefly promoted it and sold merchandise.

The theme park was named after the park's prize locomotive, ET&WNC Engine No. 12, nicknamed "Tweetsie" for the shrill, tweeting sound of its whistle. Originally consisting solely of the train, a seven-mile rail loop around the mountain, and a hiking trail, Tweetsie Railroad quickly grew into a regional tourist attraction and is somewhat of a local legend in the Appalachian hills of Western North Carolina and Northeast Tennessee. In TheSixties, Tweetsie Railroad adopted a gimmick centered around TheWildWest, with a Western village, a 19th-century fort, and a troupe of cowboys and Indians as the characters of the park. This was the work of Fred Kirby, a singing cowboy and small-time Western actor who invested into the park, and after giving Tweetsie Railroad an Old West spin, played the Marshal of Tweetsie Railroad well into the last part of TheSeventies and the beginning of TheEighties.

* SailorMoon: In 1999, there was an officially licensed promotional event centered around Sailor Moon. In fact, licensed tie-in events were a big thing in TheNineties at Tweetsie, and nearly all of them were held in late May and early June. These were later replaced by Day Out With Thomas around 2002, which has now become a mainstay.