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The company in the late 1980s, as the Mid-Atlantic Railroad, began operating two former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad branch lines. One was a portion of the now abandoned ACL line between Wilmington, North Carolina, and Whiteville, North Carolina, and the other was operated by the Waccamaw Coast Line from Conway, South Carolina, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Con-way was founded by CF to serve as a non-union short-haul LTL carrier subsidiary in 1983. [2] The name came from the beginning of Consolidated and the end of Freightways. Con-way was intended to act regionally and began in May 1983 with a subsidiary, Con-way Western Express (CWX), in three western states.
[2] [3] Con-way Freight was the largest division of Con-way, Inc. with 16,600 employees, more than 365 operating locations, 16,000 dock doors and 32,750 tractors and trailers. The company was founded by Consolidated Freightways (CF) of Portland, Oregon, as a non-union spinoff, for LTL hauling.
Con-way, Inc. was an American multinational freight transportation and logistics company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.With annual revenues of $5.5 billion, [2] Con-way was the second largest less-than-truckload transport provider in North America, with additional operations for global contract logistics, managed transportation, truckload and freight brokerage.
Overview from a Freedom residential neighborhood Conway Yard alongside Ohio River. Conway is the only remaining large operation of the four early-20th century PRR yards. NS processes 90,000 to 100,000 cars per month (as of 2003). The site occupies 568 acres, with 181 miles (291 km) of track and a storage capacity of over 11,000 cars and is a ...
Conway is a city in and the county seat of Horry County, South Carolina, United States. [8] The population was 24,849 at the 2020 census , [ 9 ] up from 17,103 in the 2010 census , [ 10 ] making it the 18th-most populous city in the state.
The station is also the terminus for the Conway Scenic Railroad. Northwest of the station stands a roundhouse, which now houses the Scenic Railroad's rolling stock; it was built around the same time as the station. [2] The yard and depot were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as North Conway Depot and Railroad Yard. [1]
The company was founded in 1961 by Francis Michael Conway. During 1981, Francis' son Michael Conway became the CEO of FM Conway; Michael would retain this role for more than 40 years. [1] [2] In May 1994, it was claimed by trade union officials that FM Conway had illegally reduced its workers' wages to cover theft and damage to plant. [3]