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Carolina Southern Railroad
Carolina Southern Railroad was located off of Main Street in Conway, South Carolina, and was one of the few remaining train depots/lines in South Carolina. The railroad was originally erected in late 1886 and the first train steamed into the Conway Depot in December 1887. R.J. Corman Railroad Group took over the operations in 2015. The Carolina Southern Railroad Co. owned and operated several box cars, passenger cars as well as the City of Myrtle Beach Club Car. The City of Myrtle Beach Club Car travels along Highway 501, crosses the Intracoastal Waterway and finally stopped at City of Myrtle Beach Train Depot located on 852 Broadway in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Carolina Southern Railroad was a member of the Carolina Rails system with connections that run from Whiteville, North Carolina to Mullins, South Carolina and also from Chadbourn, North Carolina to Conway. Carolina Southern railroad was also responsible for operation of the Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad, which is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mullins, South Carolina
Mullins is a city in Marion County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,663. Incorporated on March 4, 1872, Mullins was named after Col. William S. Mullins, who served as a representative for Marion County in the South Carolina State Legislature from 1852 to 1866. History On March 4, 1872, the charter was approved for the town of Mullins. The same year the Macedonia Methodist church was established, the first church within city limits. By 1878, the city of Mullins had a population of 75 people, a total of 12 families. There were only three stores and four unpaved streets: Railroad, Main, Smith, and Gapway Streets. Gapway Road was designed from 76 Hwy in 1933. In 1894, the growth and sale of tobacco sparked the further development of the city of Mullins. At one time, the town was the largest tobacco producing/marketing industry in the United States. Mullins became the largest distributor of tobacco in the country, known as "South C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loris, South Carolina
Loris is a city in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,396 at the 2010 census, up from 2,079 in 2000. Geography Loris is in northern Horry County on the Atlantic coastal plain. U.S. Route 701 passes through the city, leading southwest to Conway, the Horry county seat, and north to Tabor City, North Carolina. South Carolina Highway 9, a four-lane highway, passes north of Loris, leading northwest to Nichols and southeast to North Myrtle Beach. SC Highway 9 Business (Main Street) crosses US 701 in the center of Loris, leading northwest to SC 9 near Green Sea, and southeast to SC 9 near Goretown. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Loris has a total area of , of which , or 0.43%, are water. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,449 people, 1,152 households, and 656 families residing in the city. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,396 people, 819 households, and 546 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Carolina Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Northern/south Common freight carriers * Aiken Railway (AIKR) * Camp Hall Rail (CHRL) (Proposed)http://palmettorailwayscamphallrail.com *Carolina Piedmont Railroad (CPDR) *CSX Transportation (CSXT) * East Cooper and Berkeley Railroad (ECBR) *Greenville and Western Railway (GRLW) *Hampton and Branchville Railroad (HB) *Lancaster and Chester Railway (LC) *Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) *Pee Dee River Railway (PDRR) * Pickens Railway, Honea Path Division (PKHP) *Port Terminal Railroad of South Carolina (PTR) * Port Utilities Commission of Charleston, South Carolina (PUCC) * RJ Corman/Carolina Lines (RJCS) *South Carolina Central Railroad (SCRF) Passenger carriers *Amtrak (AMTK) Defunct railroads ;Electric * Anderson Traction Company * Augusta–Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation * Charleston Consolidated Railway and Lighting Company * Charleston – Isle of Palms Traction Company * Greenville, Spartanburg an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carolina Railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Common freight carriers *Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR) *Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (AR) *Alexander Railroad (ARC) *Atlantic and Western Railway (ATW) *Blue Ridge Southern Railroad (BLU) * Caldwell County Railroad (CWCY) *Cape Fear Railways (CF) *Carolina Coastal Railway (CLNA) **(Operates the Nash County Railroad) *Chesapeake and Albemarle Railroad (CA) *Clinton Terminal Railroad (CTR) *CSX Transportation (CSXT) *Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSM) *High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad (HPTD) * Kinston and Snow Hill Railroad (KSH) *Laurinburg and Southern Railroad (LRS) *Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiaries Camp Lejeune Railroad (CPLJ) and State University Railroad (SUR) **(Operates the North Carolina Railroad) (NCRR) *North Carolina and Virginia Railroad (NCVA) * R.J. Corman Carolina Lines (RJCS) * Thermal Belt Railway (TBRY) *Virginia Southern Railroad (VSRR) *Wilmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Companies Established In 1862
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct South Carolina Railroads
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Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery
Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE), previously called Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD), and Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER), is a supplementary discretionary grant program included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The legislation provided $1.5 billion for a National Surface Transportation System through September 30, 2011, "to be awarded on a competitive basis for capital investments in surface transportation projects". Requirements The U.S. government designed TIGER grants in order to incentivize bettering environmental problems and reducing the United States' dependence on energy. On the economic front, the United States hopes infrastructure investment will encourage job creation, a pressing political priority; this would likely require the project to be shovel-ready. Eligible applicants Applicants eligible to receive funding for surface trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fayetteville Observer
''The Fayetteville Observer'' is an American English-language daily newspaper published in Fayetteville, North Carolina. As the oldest North Carolina newspaper, the paper was founded in 1816 as the ''Carolina Observer''. It was locally owned by the McMurray family from 1923 to 2016, when it was acquired by GateHouse Media, which became Gannett in an acquisition in 2019. History The ''Fayetteville Observer'' is the oldest newspaper in North Carolina. It was founded in 1816 as the ''Carolina Observer''. The ''Fayetteville Observer'' was not published between 1865 and 1883, so the Wilmington '' Star-News'' (founded in 1867) is North Carolina's oldest continually published newspaper. The name was changed to the ''Fayetteville Observer'' in 1833. The ''Observer''s offices were destroyed by William T. Sherman's invading army in 1865. It was refounded as ''The Fayetteville Observer'' in 1883. W. J. McMurray bought the paper in 1923, and his family-owned Fayetteville Publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santee Cooper
__NOTOC__ Santee Cooper, also known officially from the 1930s as the South Carolina Public Service Authority, is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility that came into being during the New Deal as both a rural electrification and public works project that created two lakes and cleared large tracts of land while building hydro-electric dams and power plants. Its headquarters are located in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. As one of the largest power providers in South Carolina, Santee Cooper directly serves more than 165,000 residential and commercial customers in Berkeley, Georgetown, and Horry counties. With a fuel and energy supply that includes coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas, hydroelectric, and other renewable sources, Santee Cooper supplies power to the cities of Bamberg and Georgetown, 30 large industrial customers, and Charleston Air Force Base. Santee Cooper generates the power distributed by some of South Carolina's electric cooperatives. Following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMBF-TV
WMBF-TV (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Grand Strand and Pee Dee regions of South Carolina. Owned by Gray Television, the station maintains studios on Frontage Road East (along US 17) in Myrtle Beach, with a secondary studio and news bureau on West Cheves Street in Florence; its transmitter is located on Flossie Road in Bucksville, South Carolina. Among the youngest full-power television stations in the United States, WMBF-TV began broadcasting in 2008. Its construction gave the region its first in-market NBC affiliate, replacing cable and over-the-air broadcasts of two co-owned stations in adjacent markets, and a third source of TV news coverage. History In 1984, Moore Broadcast Industries petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to add channel 32 to the table of allotments at Myrtle Beach, specifying the station had to be located southwest of town to protect two un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPDE
WPDE-TV (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Florence, South Carolina, United States, serving the Pee Dee and Grand Strand regions of South Carolina and affiliated with ABC and The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Dabl affiliate WWMB (channel 21, also licensed to Florence) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with owner Howard Stirk Holdings. Both stations share studios on University Boulevard in Conway, while WPDE-TV's transmitter is located on Pee Dee Church Road in Floydale, South Carolina. History On June 24, 1978, Eastern Carolinas Broadcasting, a group of primarily local investors, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new television station on channel 15 in Florence. The FCC granted the application on March 15, 1979, issuing a construction permit to WPDE-TV on March 15, 1979. At the time, the area served by the station was so rural that it was able to apply for a loan from the Farmers Home Administ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surface Transportation Board
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is a federal, bipartisan, independent adjudicatory board. The STB was established on January 1, 1996, to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission when the ICC was abolished. Other ICC regulatory functions were either eliminated or transferred to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or Bureau of Transportation Statistics within DOT. The STB has broad economic regulatory oversight of railroads, including rates, service, the construction, acquisition, and abandonment of rail lines, carrier mergers, and interchange of traffic among carriers. The STB also has oversight of pipeline carriers, intercity bus carriers, moving van companies, trucking companies involved in collective activities, and water carriers engaged in non-contiguous domestic trade. The Board has wide discretion, through its exemption authority from federal, state, and local laws, to tail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
