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Spruce Pine was founded in 1907, when the Clinchfield Railroad made its way up the North Toe River from Erwin, Tennessee.The town was originally centered around a tavern operated by Isaac English, which was located on an old roadway that ran from Cranberry, North Carolina, down to Marion, NC.
North Carolina Air–Line Railway: SOU: 1877 1877 Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway: North Carolina Connecting Railway: 1905 1907 Roanoke River Railway: North Carolina Midland Railroad: SOU: 1880 Still exists as a lessor of the Norfolk Southern Railway: North Carolina Mining, Manufacturing and Development Company: ACL/ N&W: 1903 1905
Caldwell County Railroad #1747, EMD GP-16, photographed July 20, 2004. The railroad serves 5 customers, handling approximately 425 carloads (38,000 short tons or 34,500 metric tons or 33,900 long tons) per year. [2] Commodities carried by the railroad are plastics and building materials. The CWCY interchanges with Norfolk Southern at Hickory.
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.
The line from the Tennessee-North Carolina State line to Spruce Pine, N. C., was disposed of December 24, 1904[sic - 1906], to the South and Western Railroad Company (North). All of its property in Virginia was disposed of December 24, 1906, to the Clinchfield.
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 ...
A four-engine consist of the Carolina Coastal Railway (CLNA) hauls 30 cars of freight across the Neuse River on the way to Raleigh, NC from Wilson, NC. CLNA was created in 1989 under the Thoroughbred Shortline Program of Norfolk Southern and was a subsidiary of Rail Link, Inc., which became a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming in 1995.
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.