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The Clinchfield Railroad (reporting mark CRR) was an operating and holding company for the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway (reporting mark CCO). The line ran from the coalfields of Virginia and Elkhorn City , Kentucky , to the textile mills of South Carolina .
Clinchfield No. 99 at the Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in 2013. Carolina, Clinchfield, & Ohio Railroad, or Clinchfield for short, No. 99 is a 4-6-0 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1905 as South & Western Railway Company No. 1. In 1908, the South & Western became the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway. [3]
While most railroads referred to these 2-8-4 type locomotives as Berkshires, the C&O referred to them as Kanawhas after the Kanawha River, which flows through West Virginia. Used as a dual service locomotive, No. 2716 and its classmates served the C&O in a variety of duties until being retired from revenue service in 1956.
Clinchfield Railroad: CRR ACL L&N: 1924 1983 Seaboard System Railroad: Clinchfield Northern Railway of Kentucky: ACL L&N: 1911 1940 Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway: Consolidated Rail Corporation: CR 1976 1994 Louisville and Indiana Railroad: Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company: C&O: 1886 1985 ...
The town's development was spurred on by the arrival of the Clinchfield Railroad in 1902, on its line to Johnson City, Tennessee. Nearly every structure in the town no longer exists. [3] Boonford's U.S. Post Office opened on November 17, 1902, in Yancey County. [4] It was moved to Mitchell County on December 28, 1914, and closed on May 31, 1951 ...
The railroad of Clinchfield Northern, which is leased to and operated by the Clinchfield, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in the southeastern part of Kentucky. The owned mileage extends from Elkhorn City to the Kentucky-Virginia State line, a distance of 2.794 miles.
CSX is the result of a number of mergers among railroads operating in the eastern United States, the earliest among them the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) which formed in the 1820s. [4] Many of the competing railroads along the east coast began merging from the 1950s onward as part of a broader trend of consolidation.
The Interstate Railroad (reporting mark INT) was a railroad in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Virginia. It extended from the Clinchfield Railroad at Miller Yard in northeastern Scott County north and west to Appalachia and north to the main yard at Andover , with many branches to the north into the mountains.