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Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company constructed 96.1 miles (154.7 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) [2] gauge railroad line between Morehead City, North Carolina, and Goldsboro, North Carolina, through New Bern, North Carolina. The leasehold had been acquired by Norfolk Southern Railway Company, which in turn had secured it from the Atlantic and ...
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 ...
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (reporting mark ACL) was a United States Class I railroad formed in 1900, though predecessor railroads had used the ACL brand since 1871. In 1967, it merged with long-time rival Seaboard Air Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad .
The Atlantic and Western Railway (reporting mark ATW) is a Class III short-line railroad operating about 10 miles (16 km) of track in Lee County, North Carolina. Atlantic and Western is part of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. and formerly part of Rail Management and Consulting. It was reorganized in 1927 from the Atlantic and Western Railroad.
The Atlantic City Railroad was a Philadelphia and Reading Railway subsidiary that became part of Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in 1933. At the end of 1925, it operated 161 miles (259 km) of road on 318 miles (512 km) of track; that year it reported 43 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 204 million passenger-miles.
Efforts to consolidate the Atlantic and North Carolina with the NCRR began in 1866, but it would take until 1989 to complete the merger and consolidate the railroads from Morehead City to Charlotte. The North Carolina Railroad was leased to the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and its receiver from September 11, 1871, to June 30, 1894. [1 ...
The construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad line has a storied history. One of the most complex sections of the railroad is rooted in Jim Crow laws that allowed the state-owned WNC ...
The Atlantic and Yadkin Railway was a short line railroad within North Carolina from 1899 to 1950. It ran from Mount Airy southeast to Sanford , primarily serving the Piedmont region. Some of the rails are still in use as of 2006 as parts of the Yadkin Valley Railroad .