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SR 57 begins at US 30 as a two-lane road near Orrville in Wayne County. The highway travels north through Orrville and east of Rittman, intersecting SR 585 between the two towns. Further north, SR 57 enters Medina County and runs along the western edge of Wadsworth and passes the Wadsworth Municipal Airport before intersecting I-76/US 224 (Exit 7).
The main line extends in a northerly direction from Spartanburg, S. C, to the boundary line between the States of South Carolina and North Carolina, where it connects with the railroad of the Clinchfield. The two railroads thus form a part of a through route between territory adjacent to the Great Lakes and the south Atlantic seaboard.
The South and Western Railway Company (5) was incorporated for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating a steam railroad from the city of Southport or Wilmington, N. C., to any point on the South Carolina-North Carolina State line or to any point on the Virginia-North Carolina State line, and with authority to build other branch ...
Western North Carolina had been served by passenger trains following the construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad in the 1850s. Service was inherited by the Southern Railway in 1894, and discontinued in August 1975. [19] In January 1997, NCDOT's Rail Division first studied the possibility of restoring service to the region.
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The 266-mile railroad provided access to numerous scenic wonders of the Appalachian region and is probably best known for the state-of-the-art railroad engineering techniques applied in its construction, as exemplified by the Clinchfield Loops climbing the Blue Ridge Mountains north of Marion, North Carolina. The Clinchfield Railroad began ...
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The Beaufort and Morehead Railway was created on May 31, 1937 to operate the line vacated by NS. [3] On January 12, 1981 the North Carolina Ports Railway Commission acquired the Beaufort & Morehead Railway and began independent operations. In 1986, the NCPRC transferred operations of the Beaufort & Morehead to Carolina Rail Services.