Rail Depots of Eastern North Carolina

Rail Depots of Eastern North Carolina

Author: Larry K. Neal Jr.

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017-09-04

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 143966238X

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Railroads have been an integral part of North Carolina since the 1850s, allowing goods and people to travel across the state or to other areas of the country. For many years, the main focus of small towns and large cities in the state was the railroad depots. Residents could purchase train tickets, businesses sought to ship or receive goods for market, and kids loved to visit and wave to the passing train crews. During the Christmas season, presents ordered from catalogs would arrive by Railway Express and were delivered to homes across the area. Mail was also delivered by rail to the depots, even if the train did not stop at a particular community. This book hopes to provide rail enthusiasts, local and economic historians, and history lovers in general a look back at the heyday of railroads and how much they affected daily life in North Carolina.


Rail Depots of Eastern North Carolina

Rail Depots of Eastern North Carolina

Author: Larry K. Neal, Jr.

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467126225

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Railroads have been an integral part of North Carolina since the 1850s, allowing goods and people to travel across the state or to other areas of the country. For many years, the main focus of small towns and large cities in the state was the railroad depots. Residents could purchase train tickets, businesses sought to ship or receive goods for market, and kids loved to visit and wave to the passing train crews. During the Christmas season, presents ordered from catalogs would arrive by Railway Express and were delivered to homes across the area. Mail was also delivered by rail to the depots, even if the train did not stop at a particular community. This book hopes to provide rail enthusiasts, local and economic historians, and history lovers in general a look back at the heyday of railroads and how much they affected daily life in North Carolina.


Railroads of North Carolina

Railroads of North Carolina

Author: Alan Coleman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-03-03

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439635447

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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.


Carolina & N-W

Carolina & N-W

Author: Matthew C. Bumgarner

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781570720529

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With dozens of never-before-published photographs, this history traces the 140-year rise, fall, and rise again of the Carolina & North-Western Railway. Charting the ups and downs of the line’s construction—the politics, squabbling, triumphs, and failures—the chronicle provides a microcosmic overview of American railroading in this story of a single line. Life on the railroad through the Great Depression, World War II, dieselization, and absorption by Southern Railway is explored, punctuated by the real-life experiences of old-timers. Nearly 200 maps and photographs complement the text. Together they deliver an inspiring, historical tale of the Carolina & North-Western.


Stations Along Southern Railway Lines in the United States

Stations Along Southern Railway Lines in the United States

Author: Source Wikipedia

Publisher: Booksllc.Net

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781230814940

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Anniston (Amtrak station), Burlington, North Carolina (Amtrak station), Charlotte (Amtrak station), Clemson (Amtrak station), Danville (Amtrak station), Durham, North Carolina (Amtrak station), Gainesville, Georgia (Amtrak station), Gastonia (Amtrak station), Goldsboro Union Station, Greensboro (Amtrak station), Hattiesburg (Amtrak station), High Point (Amtrak station), Hull Street Station, Jacksonville Terminal Complex, Laurel (Amtrak station), Lynchburg - Kemper Street Station, Manassas (Amtrak station), Memphis Union Station, Palatka (Amtrak station), Peachtree Station, Picayune (Amtrak station), Raleigh (Amtrak station), Rapidan Passenger Depot, Salisbury (Amtrak station), Selma-Smithfield (Amtrak station), Slidell (Amtrak station), Southern Railway Depot (Piedmont, Alabama), Southern Railway Passenger Station (Westminster, South Carolina), Southern Terminal, Knoxville, Tennessee, Spartanburg (Amtrak station), Terminal Station (Atlanta), Terminal Station (Chattanooga), Toccoa (Amtrak station), Tuscaloosa (Amtrak station), Union Station (Meridian, Mississippi), Union Station (Raleigh, North Carolina), Union Station (Savannah), Union Station (St. Louis). Excerpt: The Southern Terminal is a former railway complex located at 306 West Depot Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The complex, which includes a passenger terminal and freight depot adjacent to a large railyard, was built in 1904 by the Southern Railway. Both the terminal and freight depot were designed by noted train station architect Frank Pierce Milburn (1868-1926). In 1985, the terminal complex, along with several dozen warehouses and storefronts in the adjacent Old City and vicinity, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District. During the 1850s, the arrival of the railroad-...


Report

Report

Author: North Carolina. Corporation Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13:

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