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The North Carolina Railroad (reporting mark NCRR) is a 317-mile (510 km) state-owned rail corridor extending from Morehead City, North Carolina, to Charlotte. The railroad carries over seventy freight trains operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway and eight passenger trains ( Amtrak 's Carolinian and Piedmont ) daily.
Suffolk and Carolina Railway: NS: 1884 1906 Norfolk and Southern Railway: Tallulah Falls Railway: TF SOU: 1909 1961 N/A Tennessee and North Carolina Railroad: 1903 1920 Tennessee and North Carolina Railway: Tennessee and North Carolina Railway: 1920 1951 N/A Town Creek Railroad and Lumber Company: 1905 1911 Wilmington, Brunswick and Southern ...
Contents. Lynx Blue Line. The Lynx Blue Line is a light rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Opened in 2007, it was the first rail line of the Charlotte Area Transit System, [ 2 ] and the first major rapid rail service of any kind in the state.
The American Tobacco Trail (ATT) is a 22.6-mile (36.4 km) long Rails-to-Trails project located in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, running along an abandoned railroad bed originally built for the American Tobacco Company in the 1970s. The route crosses through portions of Durham County (including the City of Durham), Chatham ...
The North Carolina Transportation Museum is a museum in Spencer, North Carolina. It is a collection of automobiles, aircraft, and railway vehicles. The museum is located at the former Southern Railway 's 1896-era Spencer Shops and devotes much of its space to the state's railroad history. The museum has the largest collection of rail relics in ...
The R-Line is a secondary main railway line running between Charlotte, North Carolina and Augusta, Georgia, United States, which is home to the greatest train to traverse the railroads system, NS 12R. The line is operated by Norfolk Southern (NS) as part of the railway's Piedmont Division. The R-Line originally operated by the former Charlotte ...
The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad was a Raleigh, North Carolina, based railroad opened in April 1840 [ 1 ] between Raleigh and the town of Gaston, North Carolina, on the Roanoke River. It was North Carolina 's second railroad (the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad opened one month earlier). The length was 100 miles (160 km) and built with 4 ft 8 in ...
Charlotte station is an Amtrak station located at 1914 North Tryon Street, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the northeast of Uptown Charlotte. Owned by Norfolk Southern, it is located near that railroad's yard outside Uptown. It is the southern terminus for the Carolinian and Piedmont, as well as a service stop on the Crescent.