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Locomotive Number 1, (left) also known as the Watauga, sits in front of the Cranberry depot around 1895. This engine served the railroad until 1911. Richard Huddle Collection, via Lees-McRae College.
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Locomotive No. 2, (right) also known as the Cranberry, is shown at Shell Creek around 1882, and is only a year old. George Allison Collection.
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Locomotive No. 3, also known as the Unaka, is shown here (left) as a woodburner around 1882. This was the most powerful engine on the railroad for twenty years. No. 3 was sold in 1911 to the Fosburgh Lumber Company. Ed Bond Collection.
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The train crew poses in front of Locomotive No. 4 at Newland, NC, (right) around 1914. No. 4 was purchased new in 1902 for the ET&WNC, and was sold to the Linville River Ry in 1914. Cy Crumley Collection, via Ruth Tupper.
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Number 5 (left) was built new for the ET&WNC in 1903, and was sold to the Linville River Railway in 1919. By the time this picture was taken circa 1915, she had been outfitted with a steel cab, smoke-box handrail, and two babies. Ed Bond Collection.
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Train crews enjoyed posing with their engines, especially in some official-like pose. Number 6 is shown here in the late Twenties, only a few years before it was parked during the Depression. It was built in 1904 for the ET&WNC, sold to the Linville River Railway in 1917, and scrapped in 1937. Doug Walker Collection.
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