ET&WNC's Johnson City Depot now home of Yee-Haw Brewing Co.

Chris Webster · **Joined:** Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:45 am **Posts:** 1095

A July 29, 2015 article in the Johnson City Press newspaper, about the former Eastern Tennessee & Western North Carolina depot in Johnson City:

Yee-Haw! Downtown Johnson City craft brewery, taco shop open in old ET&WNC depot

An excerpt:

Quote:

Downtown Johnson City’s second remodeled railroad depot is opening Thursday with a big “Yee-Haw!”.......Diners and bar patrons can let it loose at 11:30 a.m. with the official grand opening of the craft beer producer, its tap room and its onsite restaurant, the White Duck Taco Shop, in the old ET&WNC Depot on the corner of Buffalo Street and State of Franklin Road. The businesses will be open seven days a week from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with “last call” for beer and tacos at 9.

The article includes a dozen photographs of the building.

p51 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:24 pm

As a big fan of the ET&WNC, I'm thrilled that something has been done with this depot. Naturally, I would have preferred a ET&WNC museum, but we all have to be realistic.
I haven't been back to that area for several years and I'm not a beer drinker really, but when I get to the tri-cities area next time, I'll be sure to pop in for a quick one, just to support any effort that preserves one of the few existing structures left from that RR.
There are two other ET&WNC depots still in existence. The Linville depot is now at the Avery County museum and the Bemberg/Port Rayon depot still sits in downtown Elizabethton. Sadly, the ET&WNC tracks through Elizabethton were yanked out a while back... I have been told Bemberg's depot is now used for the Tweetsie rail trail. Here it is in better times, long since having been disused by the RR:

I can't find any current photos of the Linville depot online, but it's far more along than this shot shows, and now has original ET&WNC 3-foot rails laid in front and caboose 505 recently placed on those tracks:

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:10 pm

One of those buildings you'd have to look at three times to figure out it was a RR station:

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.314585, ... 312!8i6656

Not the first brewpub for Johnson City, either. The Sophisticated Otter is/was one of three otter-named breweries, and the only one I failed to get to before it closed in 2005.

p51 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:38 pm

This is a then and now shot of the building, which I'm sure has changed since the "now" part:

JohnnyWinkler · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:32 pm **Posts:** 85

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