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The Laurinburg and Southern Railroad (reporting mark LRS) is a short-line railroad operating in North Carolina. The railroad has 28 mi (45 km) of track that runs south from Raeford to Laurinburg, North Carolina and industries to the south. However, much of the line is out of service, and sections at either end are used for car storage.
junction with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Main Line: SE 278.4 Alma SE 275.9 Maxton: Maxton junction with Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway Bennettsville Branch SE 274.6 McNairs SE 269.1 Laurinburg: Laurinburg junction with Laurinburg and Southern Railroad: SE 263.6 Laurel Hill: SE 260.8 Old Hundred SE 254.3 Hamlet: East Junction
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSM) High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad (HPTD) Kinston and Snow Hill Railroad (KSH) Laurinburg and Southern Railroad (LRS) Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiaries Camp Lejeune Railroad (CPLJ) and State University Railroad (SUR) (Operates the North Carolina Railroad) (NCRR)
The Louisburg Branch was operated as a part of the Seaboard System Railroad's Norlina Subdivision from 1982 to 1985. [4] In 1985 the Seaboard System Railroad sold the line to shortline railroad operator Laurinburg and Southern, which operated the branch as the Franklin County Railroad from 1985 until the lines abandonment in 1989. [5]
The Yadkin Valley Railroad (reporting mark YVRR) is the trade name of the Piedmont and Atlantic Railroad and is a shortline railroad operating two lines leased from the Norfolk Southern Railway (Then purchased outright in 2009) originating out of Rural Hall, North Carolina for a distance of 93 miles (150 km).
Owned and operated by husband-and-wife team Gerard and Noni Rangel, the pair serve a menu of Filipino and American fusion food. The Rangels moved to Fayetteville in 2021 from San Francisco.
In 1840, Laurinburg had a saloon, a store, and a few shacks. Laurinburg High School, a private school, was established in 1852. The settlement prospered in the years following. A line of the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad was built through Laurinburg in the 1850s, with the first train reaching Laurinburg in 1861. [1]
A four-engine consist of the Carolina Coastal Railway (CLNA) hauls 30 cars of freight across the Neuse River on the way to Raleigh, NC from Wilson, NC. CLNA was created in 1989 under the Thoroughbred Shortline Program of Norfolk Southern and was a subsidiary of Rail Link, Inc., which became a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming in 1995.