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  2. Clinchfield Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The 35-mile segment from Dante, Virginia, to Elkhorn City, opening up the coal lands north of Sandy Ridge Mountains and forming a connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway at Elkhorn City, was completed in 1915. The Clinchfield was the last Class I railroad built in the U.S. east of the Rocky

  3. Smoky Mountain Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The locomotive had previously been used in the construction of the Cherokee Dam on the North Carolina side of the mountains Disposition unknown. [9] 154: 2-8-0: Schenectady Locomotive Works: 1890: 8/1953: Built as East Tennessee Virginia & Georgia Railroad #466, later went into Southern Railway ownership in 1894 and renumbered to 154.

  4. North Carolina and Virginia Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The North Carolina and Virginia Railroad (reporting mark NCVA) is a short-line railroad operating in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia. Formed in 1987 to operate a CSX Transportation branch, the NCVA operates 56 miles (90 km) of track. It is a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming. The company primarily hauls steel, grain, and chemicals ...

  5. List of automotive assembly plants in the United States

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    Jefferson North Assembly: 2101 Conner Avenue. Detroit, Michigan 48215 Jeep Grand Cherokee, Dodge Durango: Sterling Heights Assembly: 38111 Van Dyke. Sterling Heights, Michigan 48312 Ram 1500: Toledo Complex: 4400 Chrysler Dr. Toledo, Ohio 43608 Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Gladiator: Warren Truck Assembly: 21500 Mound Rd. Warren, Michigan 48091

  6. Blue Ridge Parkway - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty.The parkway, which is the longest linear park in the U.S., [3] runs for 469 miles (755 km) through 29 counties in Virginia and North Carolina, linking Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

  7. Alleghany County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    It is the fifth-smallest county in North Carolina by total area. Alleghany County is located in northwestern North Carolina. [4] It borders the North Carolina counties of Surry, Wilkes, and Ashe, and the Virginia county of Grayson. [16] The county is located entirely within the Appalachian Mountains region of western North Carolina. Most of the ...

  8. ‘West Virginia Boys’ move a literal mountain to build a road ...

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    Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...

  9. U.S. Route 501 - Wikipedia

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    North of Latta, it overlapped with US 301, through Dillon, and into North Carolina. During the 1940s, because of the need for a more direct route to Myrtle Beach Air Force Base from Conway, 2-lane US 501 was built through the Buist Tract owned by Southern Kraft Company (later part of International Paper ), [ 6 ] replacing SC 503 , its old ...