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South Carolina Military Museum: Columbia: Richland: Midlands: Military: website, honoring SC's complete military history South Carolina Railroad Museum: Winnsboro: Fairfield: Old English District: Railroad: website, includes Rockton, Rion and Western Railroad heritage steam train ride, display of railroad cars and artifacts South Carolina State ...
The only other surviving P&N item is an electric freight locomotive at North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. The railroad portion is located at 906 and 908 South Main Street. The Museum is restoring a 1953 "Cinderella Coach" at the 106 facility for special photograph events.
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
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The Rockton and Rion Railway was a Class III railroad operating freight service in Fairfield County, South Carolina until its abandonment in 1981. The railroad's entire 12-mile right-of-way is now owned by the South Carolina Railroad Museum, which rebuilt some of the railroad and currently operates on 5 miles of the line.
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Positioned on an old shipping canal (Columbia Canal) that dates back to pre-Civil War times, the museum is widely recognized [citation needed] as a resource for South Carolina history and lifestyle. The museum opened on October 29, 1988, and is housed in what it calls its largest artifact: the former Columbia Mills Building , listed on the ...
On April 24, 1997, the Carolina Piedmont Railroad acquired the entire line from Greenville to Travelers Rest [1] and on May 28, 1999, Greenville County purchased the Greenville and Northern from the Carolina Piedmont Railroad. [6] The railroad was abandoned in 2005 and was converted for use as the Swamp Rabbit Trail rail trail which opened in ...