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**1883 in receivership, 1884 acquired by Wilmington & Weldon Railroad. 1881-1883 - Leased the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad. 1881-1883 - Built the Smithfield & Goldsborough Railroad, which it owned. In 1881, James A. Bryan cooperated with William J. Best of New York to form the Midland North Carolina Railroad, with plans to lease track from the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad and from the Western North Carolina Railroad to form an east-west rail system. James worked hard to convince his fellow Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad directors that Best's idea was a good one, and seems to have succeeded. However, negotiations with the Western North Carolina Railroad were not so successful, and in the process James became disenchanted with Best, who was revealed to be a con man. In July 1882, Best requested that James resign from the board of directors of the Midland North Carolina Railroad. In August, James wrote a long and detailed refusal, outlining what he had thought were to be the railroad's goals and what turned out to be Best's intentions. In 1883, all negotiations broke down, control of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad was returned to the board of directors, and Best was accused of malfeasance. James became acting superintendent of the road. In 1883, the lease of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad was cancelled, and it returned to operations under its original name. That same year, the Midland North Carolina Railroad entered into receivership and was sold at public auction on April 1, 1884 to the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, which ended up with the only line built by the Midland North Carolina Railroad - the Smithfield & Goldsborough Railroad. *1881 may not be correct. One reference asserts that this railroad was actually chartered as early as 1874 and its first corporate president was named Charles Randolph Thomas. |
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Towns on Route: Line #1 - Smithfield to Goldsboro: Smithfield Princeton Walter (1883) Goldsborough > Goldsboro (1893) Line #2 - Goldsboro to Beaufort (1881-1883): Goldsborough > Goldsboro (1893) Best Station > Beston (1882) La Grange Falling Creek Kinston Dover Core Creek Tuscarora (1882) New Berne > Newbern (1892) > New Bern (1918) Riverdale Croatan Havelock Newport Wildwood Hollywood > Andrews (1882) > Wildwood #2 (1884) Morehead City Beaufort |
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