Outside of Old Fort, the Western North Carolina railroad bends around Andrews Geyser. The man-made fountain is named after the vice president of the company that owned the railroad, built in the ...

Due to the heavy rain and storms from this summer, Andrews Geyser is not shooting its tall plume of water into the air and may not be operating for another couple of months. The condition of the ...

OLD FORT - As the two Norfolk Southern locomotives tug dozens of rail cars up the mountain through the town's famous section of track called "the Loops," there is no indication the train is passing ...

OLD FORT, North Carolina (WLOS) — A new memorial can be found at the site of Old Fort’s Andrews Geyser, commemorating the forgotten railroad workers who helped pave the way for easier access and ...

OLD FORT, N.C. – As the two locomotives tug dozens of rail cars up the mountain through the town's famous section of track called "the Loops," there is no indication the train is passing through a ...

When the Western North Carolina Railroad was being extended to Asheville in 1879, workers, including many convicts, mostly African-American, blasted, graded and laid the train’s way from Old Fort to ...