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*1900 name changed to the Seaboard Air Line Railway. In the early 1880s, the Virginia & Carolina Railroad was incorporated, but it never secured sufficient financing to do much. It acquired some land in the town of Petersburg and part of the right-of-way between Petersburg, Virginia and Norlina, North Carolina. In 1892, this company was sold under foreclosure to the Town of Petersburg and reorganized as the Richmond, Petersburg & Carolina Railroad. The Richmond, Petersburg & Carolina Railroad was chartered in 1892 to connect the Virginia towns of Richmond and Petersburg with the Raleigh & Gaston at Ridgeway Junction, North Carolina, now known as Norlina. Construction did not begin until 1897, and was completed in May 1900. John Skelton Williams, the president of the recently-acquired Seaboard Air-Line Company, acquired the Richmond, Petersburg & Carolina Railroad in 1898. On April 10, 1900, the name of the Richmond, Petersburg & Carolina Railroad was changed to become the new Seaboard Air Line Railway that took over operation of the old Seaboard Air-Line System from Portsmouth to Atlanta, Wilmington, Rutherfordton, and Camden. From an April 29, 1900 article in the New York Times: PETERSBURG, Va., April 28. - At an adjourned meeting of the directors of the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad Company, (Seaboard Air Line system) held here to-day, E. Randolph Williams tendered his resignation as President, and John Skelton Williams was elected to fill the vacancy. |
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Towns on Route (in NC): NC/VA State Line Merry Mount > Paschall (1929) Wise Norlina (1900) |
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