Since the opening of the first permanent railway in 1833, hundreds of railroad companies have operated in North Carolina. Rail transportation, faster and more efficient than other methods of the era, opened new markets for the products of North Carolina’s farms, factories, and mines. Over the years, North Carolina rail companies have ranged in size from well-engineered giants like the Southern Railway to temporary logging railroads like the Hemlock. Cross ties and rails were laid across almost every conceivable terrain: tidal marshes, sand hills, rolling piedmont, and mountain grades. Vulnerable to the turbulent and unregulated economies of the day, few railroad companies escaped reorganizations and receiverships during their corporate lives, often leaving tangled and contradictory histories in their passing.
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Compiled by rail enthusiast Alan Coleman, this volume uses vintage photographs and information drawn from business records and other sources to capture the railroad companies that made their mark on North Carolina. Coleman is a technical writer/illustrator who resides with his wife in Hickory. He is a member of the Southern Railway Historical Association and the Norfolk and Western Historical Society and pursues his interest in model railroading through the Piedmont and Western Railroad Club of Valdese.
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This chapter will offer a glimpse of some of the common carrier railroads of North Carolina that have heen listed in the official guides and railroad investment manuals over the past 174 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North Carolina, Mac Connery, Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line, South Carolina, Historic Photos, Doug Walker, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Seaboard Air Line, Seaboard Coast Line, Mac Cannery, David Carriker, Bob Drake, High Point, Alan Coleman, Rail Link, Jerry Ledford Browse Sample Pages:
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This chapter will offer a glimpse of some of the common carrier railroads of North Carolina that have heen listed in the official guides and railroad investment manuals over the past 174 years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
logging line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, Mac Connery, Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line, South Carolina, Historic Photos, Doug Walker, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Seaboard Air Line, Seaboard Coast Line, Mac Cannery, David Carriker, Bob Drake, High Point, Alan Coleman, Rail Link, Jerry Ledford Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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