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*1927 acquired by the Carolina Southern Railway. Extended to Ahoskie <1917. Affectionately called the "Walk & Push," the farmers and small merchants in the area were overjoyed at the arrival of the Wellington & Powellsville Railroad, a narrow-gauge line connecting Windsor to Ahoskie and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. But the "Walk and Push," which had evolved from a sawmill's lowly logging train, couldn't mix with the bigger lines. When passengers from Bertie County reached the main line at Ahoskie, they had to get off and reload themselves and their merchandise onto the bigger, wide-gauge ACL cars. To facilitate this maneuver, the Wellington & Powellsville Railroad terminal in Ahoskie, on the opposite side of the bigger tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line station, had a curving set of rails that wound up running parallel to the ACL line for a hundred yards or so. The smaller cars were pushed along this parallel line until they were almost touching the bigger cars, themselves on a spur of the main line. |
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Towns on Route: Windsor Askewville (1893) Cremo (1904) Powellsville Ahoskie (1889) |
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