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8836
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The author's personal account of traveling state-to-state on the railroad in the 1930s. The author's father was a railroad president and could therefore get free train tickets for himself and his family.
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Taylorsville citizens invested in the local Alexander Railroad line when the company, The Southern, threatened to end service. The town, located in Alexander County, depended on the railroad spur, which hauled freight and mail, for economic stability. Freight statistics for the line both before and after the sale are listed.
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Willard Formyduval bought the Aberdeen and Briar Patch Railroad in 1983. Allison Francis Page and his two brothers built the railroad line in 1879 to haul timber from the forests to their mill. The original railroad line created the town of Briscoe, and its short-lived passenger business bloomed in the early 1900s. Now, the line goes from Aberdeen to Pinehurst, West End, Candor, and Briscoe, offering freight service to businesses in outlying communities. The A & BP's first run, in 1984, was met with skepticism, but, after two years, it is a thirty-four-mile railroad, serving fourteen businesses. Thanks to a 1985 grant from the Federal Railroad Administration, it is in the middle of a $1.2 million rehabilitation project.
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Colonel Alexander B. Andrews has served North Carolina not only as a solider during the American Civil War, but helped to build and maintain the railroads that were necessary for the State during the era of Reconstruction. He started his great building career as superintendent of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad and helped to rehabilitate this line as well as the Richmond and Danville and the Asheville-Spartanburg line.
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15860
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Seay recounts some of the forgotten events that are revealed by the old files of some of the state's early railroad companies of one hundred years or more ago. The information shows quite a bit of contrast between railroading then and now.
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20789
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Seay describes what railroading was like in North Carolina almost a century ago.
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13899
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Albert Johnson handled the throttle on the first train that operated on the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad more than one hundred years ago.
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The first train to Asheboro came over fifty years ago, and it was a big day in the history of the town, despite the fact that rails had to be laid as the train approached.
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On May 21, 1840, the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad ran for the first time from Gaston to the newly completed State Capitol building in Raleigh. This article uses excerpts from two 1840 letters between fifteen-year-old Peter Foster and his father to describe the train and the excitement it stirred in the communities.
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Railroading began in England in 1825, and by the 1830s, had reached North Carolina, offering a shipping alternative to turnpikes, canals, and steamboats. By 1860, 834 miles of track had been laid. Watson discusses the rise of railroads in the years leading up to the Civil War.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 44 Issue 3, May 2000,
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Five North Carolina railroads were authorized by legislation between 1829 and 1833. The last one chartered was the first to build. It was called The Experimental Railroad and carried heavy granite stones one-and-a-half miles from a Raleigh quarry to the site where the State Capitol building was being rebuilt after a fire.
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10608
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North Carolina's earliest railroads were plagued by mechanical failures that often resulted in wrecks, derailments, and deaths. Even after the introduction of steam engines, many tracks and rails were constructed completely of wood or, later, wooden rails capped with thin strips of metal. The wooden rails would often fail outright, and the metal-capped rails often lost their tops, which would then bend upwards, piercing the floor of the rail car. The grandson of Governor Edward Dudley was seriously injured and his nurse killed by an unfastened rail in 1845.
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In 1912, W.J. Grandin came from Pennsylvania to Wilkes County to build the Watauga Railroad. The completed line ran from Wilkesboro to Elkville, where there was a switch. One section of the line went to Gardin and the other to Darby. Although mostly for freight, the train ran one passenger excursion on Sundays. The railroad was ruined by the flood of 1916, and again in 1918, after which it was not rebuilt.
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Many people think theme park when they hear the words Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, but there actually was a Tweetsie Railroad. Bourknight discusses the line that dates back to 1866 and linked Eastern Tennessee with Western North Carolina. The locomotive that pulls the train at the park is the original engine No. 12 that was purchased from cowboy actor Gene Autry in 1956, restored, and brought to Blowing Rock.
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Mr. Goerch describes a round-trip ride in 1946 in the cab of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's diesel engines. The ride on \"The Sun Queen\" left Raleigh bound for Richmond and for the author's return trip \"The Silver Meteor.\" Goerch discusses improvement in rail service because of diesel engines which increase speed with less noise. The author also supplements details of his ride with railroad vernacular, operational procedures, and railroad culture.
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