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24177
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Light rail in Charlotte created a construction boom as businesses cropped up along the rail route. Light rail may be the answer for North Carolinas bustling cities as it becomes more expensive to buy gas and park in town.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 28 Issue 6, June 2008,
p74-83, il
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38213
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Senate president Calvin Graves’ conclusion, that North Carolina needed railroads, brought a better connection between the state’s crop producing west and machinery producing east. Results were the founding of cities such as Burlington and creation of conduits for ports such Wilmington’s. The irony behind this beginning is Grave’s concluded political career in his home county and relative anonymity today. Currently, only a highway marker in Yanceyville recognizes his role in the growth of North Carolina’s manufacturing industries’ muscle.
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24205
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Plans to bolster rail service throughout Eastern North Carolina might make two ports more attractive to shipping lines, imports, and exports. This worries some farmers that the rail line will become slower and non-reliable when delivering much needed feed supplies.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 26 Issue 4, April 2006,
p30-38, il
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23213
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Building a new light rail route from UNC to Alston Ave and a corresponding train yard would require many acres and displace businesses and residents alike.
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40078
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Tenth Street and Dickinson Avenue’s railroad track offers no apparent evidence of its longstanding connection and importance to East Carolina University. However, it, part of the Atlantic Coastline Railroad, served as a major transportation hub when ECU was East Carolina College. In fact, the presence of this railroad company was a reason for Greenville becoming the site for what began as East Carolina Teacher’s Training School.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 14 Issue 3, Spring 2016,
p60
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30301
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An important factor in the growth of industry throughout North Carolina has been the nearly 5000 miles of railroad, main lines and branch systems. Railroad facilities help make North Carolina even more centrally located along the eastern seaboard for the transportation of raw materials and finished products.
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We the People of North Carolina
(NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 11 Issue 6, November 1953,
p69-70, 118, 120, por, map
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10476
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Although passenger travel has declined on railroads, freight tonnage has increased, rising from 70.5 million tons in 1960 to 96.7 tons in 1965. Today twenty-seven railroads operate in the state on 4,408 miles of track. Only seven of North Carolina's one hundred counties have no railroad track mileage now in use.
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30540
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North Carolina is known for its pioneering efforts in building railroads, seaports, and airlines. Between 1800 and 1837, North Carolina sponsored and owned the longest span of railroad in the world; this developed into the statewide system known today, with larger systems extending into other regions of the United States for both passenger and freight transport. Additionally, the state's ports are handling the ever-increasing import and export tonnage of industrial products along the eastern seaboard. Further, air transport in North Carolina is now fed by six lines, with large centers in several regions of the state.
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40610
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Despite their relative closeness geographically, there are vast differences between North Carolina and West Virginia. The divergent paths these Southern states have taken since the 1850s is explored comparatively by data related to population, economy, occupations, and education.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 39 Issue 2, February 2019,
p6-7
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Railroads--North Carolina; Agriculture--North Carolina; Labor unions--North Carolina ; Manufacturing industries--North Carolina ; Textile industry--North Carolina ; Tobacco--North Carolina ; Research universities--North Carolina ; Community colleges--North Carolina ; Education, Higher--North Carolina; Population--North Carolina
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30771
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Southern Railway purchased the outstanding stock of the Atlantic and East Carolina Railway Company. The 96 mile railway extends from a connection with the Southern at Goldsboro, North Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean port at Morehead City. After four years of negotiation, the A&EC will continue to be operated as a separate short line railroad.
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24453
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This article presents the history of the North Carolina Railroad Company, which owns the tracks upon which the Carolinian travels. The tracks were built in the decade before the Civil War in order to promote and facilitate economic development in the Piedmont.
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