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This lack of inter-railway connections rendered many railroads useless once the Union blockade was in place. Second, there was a break of gauge issue: much of the Confederate rail network used the 5 ft ( 1,524 mm ) broad gauge , while much of North Carolina and Virginia used the 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge .
North and South Carolina Railway: South Carolina Western Extension Railway: SAL: 1913 1914 North and South Carolina Railway: South and North Carolina Railroad: ACL: 1892 1896 Manchester and Augusta Railroad: South and Western Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1908 1909 Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway of South Carolina: Southern Railway: SOU SOU 1894 ...
In the South, most railroads in 1860 were local affairs connecting cotton regions with the nearest waterway. Most transports were by boat, not rail, and after the Union blockaded the ports in 1861 and seized the key rivers in 1862, long-distance travel was difficult.
The Spartanburg and Union Railroad was a 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [1] shortline railroad that served the South Carolina Upstate region before, during and after the American Civil War. The company secured a charter from the South Carolina General Assembly in 1847 [ 2 ] to build a line from Alston, South Carolina , on the Greenville and Columbia ...
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war.
The Cheraw and Darlington Railroad was a 26-mile (42 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [1] gauge shortline railroad that served South Carolina and, later, North Carolina, beginning before the American Civil War. The gauge was changed to 4 ft 9 in ( 1,448 mm ) in 1886.
The C&S RR established and operated a 120-mile (190 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [1] gauge rail line from Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, connecting two of the most important port cities in the antebellum southeastern United States. South Carolina state senator Thomas Drayton was the president of the railroad from its earliest planning ...