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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 Railroad: Townsville Railroad: 1919 1933 N/A Transylvania Railroad: SOU: 1899 Tuckaseegee and Southeastern Railway: 1920 1945 N/A Virginia and Carolina Railroad: SAL: 1883 ...
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.
The Atlantic and East Carolina Railway Company had been chartered under the general corporation laws of North Carolina on June 19, 1939, with charter power to lease and operate the line of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company. The issues of stock by the Atlantic and East Carolina were authorized by the ICC. [7]
It was reorganized as the Carolina Central Railway in 1873. It built 152 miles (245 km) of track, in two unconnected sections, in the southern part of North Carolina. The company was again reorganized as the Carolina Central Railroad in 1880. In 1900, the Carolina Central Railroad was merged into the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (reporting mark ET&WNC), affectionately called the "Tweetsie" as a verbal acronym of its initials (ET&WNC) but also in reference to the sound of its steam whistles, was a primarily 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad established in 1866 for the purpose of serving the mines at Cranberry, North Carolina.
Western North-Carolina Railroad Company was incorporated under act of North Carolina on February 15, 1855. [1] Western North Carolina Railroad Company went through several slight changes in name and reorganizations before being sold at foreclosure on August 21, 1894, and conveyed to Southern Railway (U.S.) on August 22, 1894.
The Southern Railway Spencer Shops are a former locomotive repair facility in Spencer, North Carolina. The shops were one of the Southern Railway 's primary maintenance facilities. The shops were built in the 1890s and named after Southern Railway president Samuel Spencer .
The New Hope Valley Railway is a heritage railroad in Bonsal, North Carolina operated by the North Carolina Railway Museum, Inc., an all-volunteer, nonprofit, and tax exempt educational and historical organization. The railroad consists of a total of five miles of track between the communities of Bonsal, North Carolina and New Hill, North Carolina.