List of North Carolina Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad 1897 1912
Air Line Railroad in South Carolina 1856 1870
Aberdeen and West End Railroad 1889 1897
Albemarle and Pantego Railroad 1887 1891
Albemarle and Raleigh Railroad 1883 1894
Alma Railway Unknown 1911
Appalachian Railway 1908 1935
Asheboro and Montgomery Railroad 1896 1897
Asheville Southern Railway 1905 1941
Asheville and Craggy Mountain Railway 1889 1941
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad 1881 1902
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway 1877 1996
Atlanta and Richmond Air 1870 1876
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway 1896 1905
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 1898 1967
Atlantic and Carolina Railroad 1914 1948
Atlantic and Danville Railway 1882 1962
Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad 1879 1882
Atlantic and North Carolina Company 1905 1906
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad 1852 1989
Atlantic and Western Railroad 1888 1927
Atlantic and Yadkin Railway 1899 1950
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad 1852 1894
Black Mountain Railway 1903 1955
Blue Ridge and Atlantic Railway 1901 1909
Bonlee and Western Railway 1908 1932
Caldwell and Northern Railroad 1893 1910
Cape Fear and Northern Railway 1898 1903
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway 1879 1898
Carolina Central Railroad 1880 1901
Carolina Central Railway 1873 1880
Carolina Coast Railroad 1903 1906
Carolina Narrow-gauge Railroad 1872 1873
Carolina Northern Railroad 1899 1905
Carolina Railroad 1912 1931
Carolina Valley Railway 1907 1909
Carolina and Georgia Railway 1919 1927
Carolina and Northeastern Railroad 1917 1931
Carolina and Northwestern Railway 1897 1974
Carolina and Tennessee Southern Railway 1902 1944
Carolina and Yadkin River Railway 1912 1923
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway 1914 1915
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway 1908 1990
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway 1882 1895
Carolina, Glenanna and Pee Dee Railway and Development Company 1905 1907
Carthage Railroad 1886 1920
Carthage and Pinehurst Railroad 1907 1922
Carthage and Western Railroad 1893 Unknown
Cashie and Chowan Railroad and Lumber Company 1883 Unknown
Cashie and Roanoke Railroad 1887 1893
Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Railroad 1873 1879
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad 1886 1893
Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad 1846 1869
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad 1869 1894
Chatham Railroad 1861 1937
Cheraw and Coalfields Railroad 1867 1868
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad 1849 1898
Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad 1868 1882
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad 1873 1897
Chowan River Railway and Baltimore Steamboat Company 1883 1886
Chowan and Southern Railroad 1886 1889
Cliffside Railroad 1905 1987
Clinton and Faison Railroad 1881 1885
Clinton and Warsaw Railroad 1885 1888
Dan Valley and Yadkin River Narrow Gauge Railroad 1881 1883
Dan Valley and Yadkin River Railroad 1879 1880
Danville and New River Railroad 1873 1890
Danville and Western Railway 1891 Unknown
Danville, Mocksville and Southwestern Railroad 1880 1899
Dismal Swamp Railroad 1896 1941
Dover and South Bound Railroad 1905 1930
Durham Union Station Company 1904 1965
Durham and Charlotte Railroad 1893 1912
Durham and Northern Railway 1887 1901
Durham and Roxboro Railroad 1885 1887
Durham and South Carolina Railroad 1905 1993
Durham and Southern Railway 1904 1981
East Carolina Land and Railway Company 1887 1894
East Carolina Railway 1898 1965
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad 1866 1983
Edenton and Norfolk Railway 1888 1902
Egypt Railway 1892 1910
Elizabeth City and Norfolk Railroad 1870 1883
Elizabeth City and Western Railroad 1899 1902
Elkin and Alleghany Railroad 1920 1931
Elkin and Alleghany Railway 1907 1919
Florence and Fayetteville Railroad 1861 1881
French Broad Railroad 1919 1925
Georgia and North Carolina Railroad 1871 1887
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway 1886 1901
Glendon and Gulf Mining and Manufacturing Company 1891 1896
Goldsboro Union Station Company 1908 1968
Graham County Railroad 1905 1984
Greensville and Roanoke Railroad 1834 1855
Greenville and French Broad Railroad 1855 1874
Gumberry and Jackson Railroad and Lumber Company 1887 1896
Halifax and Weldon Railroad 1834 1837
Hendersonville and Brevard Railway, Telegraph and Telephone Company 1891 1897
High Point and Randleman Railroad 1883 1887
High Point, Randleman, Asheboro and Southern Railroad 1887 Unknown
Hoffman and Troy Railroad 1883 Unknown
Howland Improvement Company 1903 1905
Jackson Springs Railroad 1901 1907
Kinston Carolina Railroad 1918 1929
Kinston and Carolina Railroad Unknown 1909
Kinston and Snow Hill Railroad Unknown 1913
Kinston 1910 1918
Lawndale Railway and Industrial Company 1903 1943
Linville River Railroad 1896 1899
Linville River Railway 1899 1940
Louisburg Railroad 1881 1901
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 1850 1983
Lower Creek and Linville Valley Transportation Company 1891 1893
Lynchburg and Durham Railroad 1887 1896
Madison County Railway 1910 1925
Marietta and North Georgia Railway 1887 1895
Maxton, Alma and Southbound Railroad 1911 1937
Midland North Carolina Railway 1873 1884
Milton and Sutherlin Railroad 1876 1894
Moore County Railroad 1893 1904
Mount Airy Railroad 1879 1879
Mount Airy and Eastern Railway 1899 1910
Mount Airy and Ore Knob Railroad 1871 1879
Mount Hope Valley Railroad 1904 1905
Norfolk Southern Railroad 1883 1942
Norfolk and Carolina Railroad 1889 1900
Norfolk and Southern Railroad 1891 1906
Norfolk and Southern Railway 1906 1910
Norfolk and Western Railroad 1881 1896
Norfolk and Western Railway 1896 1998
Norfolk, Lynchburg and Durham Railroad 1896 1896
Norfolk, Roanoke and Southern Railroad 1896 1896
North Carolina Air 1877 1877
North Carolina Connecting Railway 1905 1907
North Carolina Midland Railroad 1880 Unknown
North Carolina Mining, Manufacturing and Development Company 1903 1905
North Carolina Railroad 1849 Unknown
North Western North Carolina Railroad 1868 1894
North and South Carolina Railroad 1899 1940
North and South Carolina Railway 1908 1914
Northampton and Hertford Railroad 1891 1908
Northampton and Hertford Railway 1909 1917
Ohio River and Charleston Railway 1894 1902
Oxford and Clarksville Railroad 1885 1894
Oxford and Coast Line Railroad 1891 1906
Oxford and Henderson Railroad 1871 1894
Palmetto Railroad 1882 1895
Palmetto Railway 1895 1901
Pee Dee Valley Railway 1909 1910
Petersburg Railroad 1830 1898
Piedmont Railroad 1862 1894
Piedmont Railway 1909 1912
Piedmont and Northern Railway 1911 1969
Pigeon River Railway 1906 1931
Pittsboro Railroad 1885 1899
Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad 1832 1846
Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad 1871 1901
Raleigh and Cape Fear Railway 1898 1905
Raleigh and Charleston Railroad 1905 1941
Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Railroad 1903 1903
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad 1835 1901
Raleigh and Pamlico Sound Railroad 1903 1906
Raleigh and Southport Railway 1905 1912
Raleigh and Western Railway 1893 1908
Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern Railway 1911 1913
Randolph and Cumberland Railroad 1906 1907
Randolph and Cumberland Railway 1907 1924
Richmond and Danville Railroad 1847 1894
Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad 1892 1900
Roanoke Railroad 1847 1849
Roanoke River Railway 1907 1919
Roanoke Valley Railroad 1850 1880
Roanoke and Southern Railway 1887 1896
Roanoke and Tar River Railroad 1885 1911
Rockingham Railroad 1910 1968
Rockingham Railway 1910 1910
Roxboro Railroad 1881 1887
Roxboro and Narrow Gauge Railroad 1879 1881
Rutherfordton, Marion and Tennessee Railway 1881 1886
Sanford and Glendon Railroad Unknown 1910
Sanford and Troy Railroad 1910 1912
Seaboard Air Line Railway 1900 1945
Seaboard Air Line System 1893 1900
Seaboard and Raleigh Railroad 1873 1883
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad 1846 1911
Smoky Mountain Railway 1905 1927
South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad 1898 1902
South and Western Railroad 1905 1909
South and Western Railway 1901 1906
Southeastern Railroad 1855 1906
Southern Railway 1894 1990
Southern Railway 1902 1996
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad 1873 1881
Statesville and Western Railroad 1887 1894
Suffolk and Carolina Railway 1884 1906
Tallulah Falls Railway 1898 1961
Tennessee and North Carolina Railroad 1900 1920
Tennessee and North Carolina Railway 1920 1951
Town Creek Railroad and Lumber Company 1905 1911
Townsville Railroad 1919 1933
Transylvania Railroad 1899 Unknown
Tuckaseegee and Southeastern Railway 1920 1945
Virginia and Carolina Railroad 1882 1892
Virginia and Carolina Southern Railroad 1903 Unknown
Virginia and Mount Airy Railway 1920 Unknown
Virginia and North Carolina Railroad 1872 1873
Virginia 1898 1919
Warrenton Railroad 1876 1985
Washington and Plymouth Railroad 1901 1904
Washington and Vandemere Railroad 1903 1944
Weldon and Roanoke Rapids Electric Railway 1907 1917
Wellington and Powellsville Railroad 1893 1926
Western North Carolina Railroad 1855 1894
Western Railroad 1833 1879
Wilmington Railway Bridge Company 1866 1956
Wilmington and Carolina Railroad 1870 1870
Wilmington and Charlotte Railroad 1855 1855
Wilmington and Conway Railroad 1895 1896
Wilmington and Manchester Railroad 1846 1870
Wilmington and Newbern Railroad 1897 1897
Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad 1834 1855
Wilmington and Tarboro Railroad 1861 1873
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad 1855 1900
Wilmington, Brunswick and Southern Railroad 1907 1945
Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway Railroad 1885 1895
Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conwayboro Railroad 1883 1887
Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad 1855 1873
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad 1870 1898
Wilmington, Newbern and Norfolk Railroad 1893 1897
Wilmington, Onslow and East Carolina Railroad 1885 1893
Winston-Salem and Madison Railroad 1879 1880
Winston-Salem and Mooresville Railroad 1878 1880
Winton Railroad and Lumber Company 1889 Unknown
Yadkin Railroad 1871 Unknown