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The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 [2] to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers.
A national Railroad Retirement system was eventually established in 1935. The Railroad Retirement Act was then passed in 1937, followed by the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act in 1938.
The Wilmington and Charlotte Railroad was incorporated on February 13, 1855, but the name was changed soon after to the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad. The company intended to build a railway line from Wilmington, North Carolina, on the Atlantic Ocean, to Rutherford County, North Carolina, via Charlotte, North Carolina. [1]
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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.
TTX was founded as TrailerTrain in 1955 by Norfolk & Western Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Rail-Trailer Corporation. [2] Pennsylvania Railroad employees—6,000 in total—entered possible names in a drawing for the new company, and the name "Trailer Train" won. [3]
After retirement in 1940, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ceased operations in 1950 and No. 12 is the only one of the railroad's narrow-gauge engines still in existence. It was sold to the Shenandoah Central in 1952 where it was restored in 1953 and continued to operate in service until its second retirement in 1954.
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad: ANC NS: 1852 1989 North Carolina Railroad: Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad: SOU: 1855 1894 Southern Railway: Atlantic and Western Railroad: 1889 1927 Atlantic and Western Railway: Atlantic and Yadkin Railway: SOU: 1899 1950 Southern Railway: Beaufort and Morehead Railroad: BMH 1937 1998 North Carolina ...