North Carolina Railroads - East Carolina Railway




North Carolina Railroads - East Carolina Railway / Railroad

Acronym	Year Chartered or Incorporated	Year Line Operational	Year Service Ended	Original Starting Point	Original Ending Point
ECR	unknown	1901	1965	Tarboro, NC	Farmville, NC

Extended to Hookerton, NC by 1917. Abandoned in 1965. The East Carolina Railroad was a short line that interchanged at Farmville, NC with the original Norfolk Southern. The railroad was organized and initially presided over by Henry Clark Bridgers, the nephew of Robert Rufus Bridgers, who was the president of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad. The East Carolina Railroad shut down in 1965. There still exists a railroad diamond crossing in Farmville that can be seen from aerial photos. There are many contemporaneous references to this line as the East Carolina Railway and the East Carolina Railroad. Which one is correct is currently unknown.

Towns on Route: Tarboro Pinetops (1900) Macclesfield (1900) Fountain (1902) Farmville Maury (1909) Hookerton