Step back in time at Tweetsie Railroad, where you can hop aboard a historic steam locomotive for a wild mountain adventure. The Christmas season brings “Tweetsie Christmas” with thousands of lights, holiday shows, and a nighttime train ride through festive displays that would make even the most dedicated Scrooge admit that maybe, just maybe, Christmas isn’t so bad after all. Tweetsie Railroad opened as a tourist attraction in 1957, making it one of North Carolina’s first theme parks and the state’s only Wild West theme park.