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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 Carolina, Glenanna and Pee Dee Railway and Development Company: North Carolina Ports Railway Commission: NCPR 1979 2002 North Carolina State ...
The Midland Branch ran from the main line at Goldsboro west to Smithfield. It was originally chartered as the Smithfield and Goldsboro Railroad and it was built by its parent company, the Midland North Carolina Railway. It was acquired by the W&W in 1885. It was named the Midland Branch after the Midland North Carolina Railway.
Midland is a town in southern Cabarrus County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. [1] Located in the Charlotte region of North Carolina, Midland is a 30-minute commute to uptown Charlotte. The name of the town is derived from its location approximately halfway between Charlotte and Oakboro on the railroad line.
The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad would designate the line as their Midland Branch (named for the Midland North Carolina Railroad). By 1899, the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad was fully incorporated into the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad network. [2] Atlantic Coast Line abandoned the Midland Branch in 1930. [3]
The owned mileage of the company, 761.73 miles, was acquired as follows: 8 miles of partly constructed road from the Halifax and Weldon Railroad Company, 53 miles from The Albemarle and Raleigh Railroad Company, 21.47 miles from The Midland North Carolina Railway Company, 85 miles from the Wilmington and Newbern Railroad Company, 165 miles from ...
The Clinton Spur line runs from Warsaw to Clinton for a total of 11.3 miles. Most of the spur is owned and operated by CSX. The end of the spur (approximately 3.53 miles of rail line between milepost 199.0 in Moltonville, NC, and the end of the track at milepost 202.53 in Clinton, NC) was owned and operated by the Clinton Terminal Railroad Company (CTR), originally as the Clinton Division of ...
Rail travel helped turn Pinehurst into a national golfing destination in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I rode the U.S. Open Express Thursday morning, and ventured into the past.
The Carolina Midland Railway was a railroad that served western South Carolina in the late 19th century. The Carolina Midland was formed in 1891 with the consolidation of the Barnwell Railway and the Blackville, Alston and Newberry's Perry-to-Blackville line.