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The American Tobacco Trail (ATT) is a 22.6-mile (36.4 km) long Rails-to-Trails project located in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, running along an abandoned railroad bed originally built for the American Tobacco Company in the 1970s.
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.
Rock Hill, South Carolina: Partly abandoned. W Line: 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.
In 1984, the railroad acquired the Seaboard System Railroad branch line between Ellenboro, North Carolina and Cliffside Junction, increasing the railroad's total mileage to 8.14. [1] By the 1980s, the railroad's traffic mix included textile products, waste, and scrap, and the railroad was owned by the Cone Mills Corporation and others. [1]
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 Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the nation's oldest rail trail, beginning its second life roughly 50 years ago when Wisconsin purchased the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line to ...
Only a bridge was built over the present A34 before work was abandoned. North West Central Railway - begun 1890 as a trunk line from the Midland Railway and the Queensbury lines of the Great Northern Railway at Keighley to the West Lancashire Railway at Preston, Lancashire via Colne, with connections to Southport and, via the Liverpool ...