South Carolina Railroads - Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railway

Acronym

Year Chartered or Incorporated

Year Line Operational

Year Service Ended

Original Starting Point

Original Ending Point

A&C RR

1877

1877

1894*

Charlotte, NC

Atlanta, GA


*1894 merged into Southern Railway.

Was the Atlanta & Richmond Air Line Railway.

1877 acquired the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Railroad (a North Carolina company), which ran from Statesville to Charlotte.

Managed by the Richmond & Danville Railroad until 1894.


Towns on Route (in SC):

NC/SC State Line

Kings Mountain

Whitaker

Blacks Station > Blacks (1887) > Blacksburg (1889)

Cherokee Falls (1900)

Gaffney City (1879) > Gaffney (1892)

Clarksville

Thickety (1879)

Hurricane Shoals > Cowpens (1880)

Clifton (1881)

Converse (1891)

Drayton (1904)

Spartanburg C.H. > Spartanburg (1887)

Saxon Mills Station (1900s)

Arcadia (1904)

Fair Forest (1884) > Fairforest (1894)

Welford > Wellford (1883)

Vernonsville > Duncans (1881) > Duncan (1907)

Greer's Depot (1873) > Greer (1901)

Chicks Springs > Taylors (1904)

Greenville C.H. > Greenville (1888)

Saluda (1880s)

Spencer (1898)

Easley

Beverly (1896)

Liberty

Norris (1899)

Centre > Central (1879)

Fort Hill (1890) > Calhoun (1902)

Keowee

Seneca

Richland (1883)

Westminster

Harbins (1880s)

Fort Madison > Cleveland (1887) > Fort Madison (1892) > Madison (1904)

SC/GA State Line



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