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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.
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 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]
The Life & Legend of E. H. Harriman (2000) U of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2517-4. online; Marrs, Aaron W. Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society (2009) excerpt and text search; Martin, Albro. James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest (1990) excerpt and text search; Martin, Albro.
The line was part of the subsequent reorganization into the Carolina & North-Western Railway in 1897, which was absorbed into the Southern Railway around 1940. [4] As part of the Thoroughbred Shortline Program, the line was spun off to the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad, which operated the line from 1990 to 1994. [5]
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.
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 railway continued to be operated under the East Carolina Railway name until the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad abandoned the line in 1965. The last train ran on 16 November 1965. [1] In 1960, East Carolina reported 1.1 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and no passengers on its 29-mile railroad. [citation needed]