South Carolina Railroads - Carolina, Cumberland Gap & Chicago Railroad




South Carolina Railroads - Carolina, Cumberland Gap & Chicago Railway

Acronym	Year Chartered or Incorporated	Year Line Operational	Year Service Ended	Original Starting Point	Original Ending Point
CCG &C RR	unknown	1883	<1898*	Aiken, SC	Edgefield, SC

*<1898 acquired by the Ohio River & Charleston Railroad. In 1883, the South Carolina Railway entered into a traffic contract with the Carolina, Cumberland Gap & Chicago Railway Company, owners of the twenty-three (23) miles of road from Aiken to Edgefield, for a certain rebate from the receipts realized from joint business. In 1886, this contract was extended for a period of ten years. Upon the reorganization of the South Carolina Railway in 1894 to the new South Carolina & Georgia Railroad Company, the new SC&G RR continued to operate, by a modified agreement, the line of the Carolina, Cumberland Gap & Chicago Railway Company between Aiken and Edgefield until March 31, 1896, when that company, as a result of bankruptcy, was succeeded by the Carolina & Cumberland Gap Railway Company. Apparently, the new Carolina & Cumberland Gap Railway was soon sold to the Ohio River & Charleston Railroad, because by 1898 the OR&C RR owned the line and sold it to the South Carolina & Georgia Railroad in August of that year.

Towns on Route: Aiken Crofts (1892) Eureka (1890) Trenton Edgefield