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Saluda Grade was the steepest standard-gauge mainline railway grade in the United States. [1] Owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway as part of its W Line, Saluda Grade in Polk County, North Carolina, gained 606 feet (185 m) in elevation in fewer than three miles (4.8 km) between Melrose and Saluda, North Carolina. Average grade was 4.24 percent ...
Saluda is a city in Polk and Henderson counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.The population was 713 at the 2010 census. [5] Saluda is famous for sitting at the top of the Norfolk Southern Railway's Saluda Grade, which was the steepest main line standard-gauge railway line in the United States until Norfolk Southern ceased operations on the line in 2001. [6]
The W Line is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina.It runs from Asheville, North Carolina southeasterly via Spartanburg, South Carolina to Columbia, South Carolina, [1] but the portion northwest of Landrum, South Carolina [2] (over the Saluda Grade) has been closed since December 2001.
Funding for the planned 31.5-mile Saluda Grade Trail continues to add up. The North Carolina budget includes $12 million over two years.
People look out from an overlook at Bell Park in Saluda Nov. 22, 2024. The new Henderson County park, which officially opened on Friday, comprises 1.8 miles of hiking trails.
Asheville, North Carolina: Columbia, South Carolina: Includes the closed Saluda Grade. TR Line: Hendersonville, North Carolina: Pisgah Forest, North Carolina: Ex-Southern line, branches off W Line at Hendersonville. Line sheltered in 2007. Original line went to Lake Toxaway, North Carolina.
Norfolk Southern's predecessor railroads date to the early 19th century. The South Carolina Canal & Rail Road was the SOU's earliest predecessor line. Chartered in 1827, the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company became the first to offer regularly scheduled passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston in 1830. [18]
Saluda Grade, Saluda, North Carolina, United States The steepest standard gauge mainline railroad grade in the United States. [19] Worked by adhesion between 1878 and 2001, currently out of service. 1 in 22 (4.5%) Balsam Mountain Grade, Balsam N.C. Balsam Mountain, home of highest railroad station east of the Rockies; average grade about 4.0% ...