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The operating schedule as of 10 November 1903, according to the August 1904 edition of the "Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico [sic], Canada, Mexico and Cuba" showed the departure of a train from Tarboro at 9:40 a.m. Eastern time, arriving at Farmville, 26 miles away, at 11:25 a.m. on Monday-Tuesday, and Thursday-Friday.
Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina Railroad Company. Under special act of North Carolina, May 5, 1885. Name changed to 21 on June 12, 1893. 23. East Carolina Land and Railway Company. Under special act of North Carolina, Mar. 4, 1887. Merged Feb. 8, 1894, with 21. 24. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company of South Carolina.
The East Carolina Land and Railway Company was chartered by Craven County, North Carolina, and the city of New Bern in 1887 to construct a 37-mile (60 km) rail line connecting New Bern with Jacksonville, North Carolina. $60,000 was asked for the rail line from the county, plus an additional $40,000 to extend the rail line to either Washington, Greenville, or Pantego.
East Carolina Railway: ACL: 1898 1965 N/A East Carolina Land and Railway Company: ACL: 1887 1894 Wilmington, Newbern and Norfolk Railroad: East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad: ETWN 1866 1950 N/A Edenton and Norfolk Railway: NS: 1888 1902 Suffolk and Carolina Railway: Egypt Railway: NS: 1892 1910 Sanford and Troy Railroad ...
In 1914, the North and South Carolina Railway, the Georgetown and Western Railroad, and other nearly railroads were merged into the Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway. In 1915, the Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway extended the line from Andrews south to Charleston. By the end of 1915, the Seaboard Air Line acquired the Carolina ...
In 1942, the ICC authorized the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company to issue certain promissory notes to purchase 1.43 miles (2.30 km) of spur track from Havelock, North Carolina, to a United States reservation under construction (Camp Lejeune) from its lessee, Atlantic and East Carolina Railway Company, because Atlantic and North ...
A. Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad; Aberdeen and Briar Patch Railway; Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad; Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway; Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway
[7] The ACL acquired the East Carolina Railway in 1935, running south from Tarboro to Hookerton, although the 12-mile extension to Hookerton was abandoned in 1933. [8] The ACL's last major acquisition was the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad, which it purchased in 1927, though the AB&C was not merged into the ACL until 1945.