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In 1977, the Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad's steam locomotive Number 40 was moved to Connecticut. Built in 1920, the locomotive will be operated by Valley Railroad which specializes in tourist trains.\r\n
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This article discusses the history and economic importance of narrow gauge railroads in North Carolina. Narrow gauge railroads were less costly to build than standard railroads and made use of smaller, lighter steam engines. These types of railroads were perfect for difficult or mountainous terrain.
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In the 1920s and 1930s with the introduction of automobiles and buses, the railroad industry came up with the doodlebug to help spur passenger business. Cheap and energy-efficient, travelers and railroad companies embraced the new car. The base of the doodlebug was actually a Model-T Ford on railroad wheels. Streetcars and highway trucks with railroad wheels also functioned as doodlebugs. Several businesses set up in North Carolina to manufacture the cars, including the Edwards Company, which supplied cars to Fort Bragg's railway. By 1950, bigger, sleeker railroad cars were introduced, ending the doodlebug era.
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Yankee sailor William B. Cushing sank the CSS ALBEMARLE (ship) in 1864 with a torpedo. This article recounts the methods used to attack the ironclad.
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Commonly called Tweetsie, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad was the narrow-gauge common-carrier railroad that once ran from Boone into Tennessee. It was one of the last steam rails in the country, and was almost the last narrow-gauge freight road when its last track was taken out of North Carolina in 1950 due to annual operating losses.
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The Graham County Railroad, the last common carrier in the country to rely totally on Shay geared logging type, steam locomotives, has ceased commercial operations. During the 1950s and 1960s, railroad fans from across the country would come to Graham County to watch, hear, and hopefully ride the little mountain railroad. The loss of the commercial business is softened by the fact that the Graham County Railroad has left its all-steam operation tradition and a portion of its facilities and equipment to the surviving Bear Creek Scenic summer tourist railroad.
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Goldsboro, North Carolina was home to a locomotive manufacturing firm from the 1890s into the 1920s. The company, still active today as a foundry and steel fabricator, is Dewey Brothers and its locomotive building days spanned a period of approximately 30 years. Loggers, quarry operators, and other users of small locomotives relied on the Dewey engines, available in either standard or narrow gauge, not so much for railroad use as for operation on private tracks where duty was lighter and track more flimsy and uneven.
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Most of North Carolina's larger cities, such as Raleigh, Burlington, Charlotte, Concord, New Bern, and Wilmington, among others, had trolley car services for public transportation. Many municipalities started with horse drawn cars, and upgraded to electric powered conveyances as the services became available, as was the case with Asheville, which, by 1889, had the first electrified street railway system south of Richmond. The last of the street cars to operate in North Carolina, Gastonia city car Number 2 of the Piedmont and Northern, made its final trip in 1948, before being placed on permanent exhibit in a Gastonia park.
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Although High Point, NC is today primarily associated with the manufacture of furniture, hosiery, and school buses, at one time it was recognized as a leader in the manufacture of trolley cars, shipping its product from Canada to the Caribbean. Hundreds of trolley cars were built over a quarter century by two successive High Point firms, the Southern Car Company and the Perley A. Thomas Car Works. The Thomas firm remains active today as a major builder of school bus bodies.
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The lumber business that began and spread across the state in the 1880s could not have done so without the logging railroad. So many logging firms relied on railroads to transport logs from the woods to the mills that North Carolina had one of the heaviest concentrations of such railroads in the country. While most were temporary, some grew from private carriers into modern common carriers that are still active today, such as the Durham & Southern and the Aberdeen & Rockfish. The last logging railroad in North Carolina was the line of the Bemis Hardwood Lumber Co., near Robbinsville, that ceased logging operations in 1947.
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The merger of the Piedmont & Northern Railway with the Seaboard Coastline Railway brings to an end one of the most remarkable and interesting companies that ever ran trains in North Carolina. At the start of its career, the line was little more than a new-built country trolley, but in its maturity, it was deemed more of a financial success than any other electric interurban railway in the United States.
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Southern Railroad's tracks crisscross North Carolina, but in McDowell County the tracks gained fame. The railway to Asheville experienced several height grading problems in the 1880s. The elevation grade prevented direct service to Asheville. Major James Wilson took control of the project and experimented with unique ideas of increasing track length between grade points, which allows for longer distances of travel to climb the proper elevation. The tracks even use a round valley as a type of centrifuge point to gain altitude and became famous for the unique ideas used to solve railway problems.
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The Clinchfield Railroad is an important part of McDowell County and the railroads in North Carolina. Created in 1900, the railway runs through the Appalachian Mountains from the Kentucky coal fields to Spartanburg, South Carolina. The track is centered in North Carolina and connects Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, and West Virginia's economic regions together. The Carolina Clinchfield railway came into operation in 1908 and has remained active throughout the area.
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The Virginia Creeper was a famous mixed freight-passenger train line that existed in western North Carolina and operated from 1911 until 1963. The name came from the slow progress the trains experienced traveling through the mountains. The line carried mail, logs, and coal from North Carolina into bordering states. The line lost relevancy with the induction of cars and roadways which bypassed the slow tracks.
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Mecklenburg County is the home of the first steel mill in North Carolina. The Florida Steel Corporation built the mill in 1962, constructing the mill outside of Charlotte and close to the Davidson railroad station. The Florida Steel Corporation employed 250 workers in two shifts at the facility to allow for the mill to run continuously. The Mecklenburg steel mill produced subway railway bars and reinforcement rods en masse as the mill generated fifty thousand tons of steel products last year.
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