The Hampton and Branchville Railroad is a South Carolina railroad that has served the western part of the state since the 1920s.
The Hampton and Branchville Railroad is a successor of the
Hampton and Branchville Railroad and Lumber Company, which was chartered by the
South Carolina General Assembly in 1891.
The Hampton and Branchville Railroad and Lumber Company changed its name to the Hampton and Branchville Railroad in 1924. The H&B bought their first diesel locomotive in 1951 and retired their last
steam locomotive in 1958. The Hampton and Branchville operates freight services from a
CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
connection at Hampton to
Canadys, South Carolina, about away. However, the railroad's main customer, the Canadys coal-fired power plant near
Canadys operated by
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, received its last shipment of coal in December 2012 (the power plant was retired in 2013), and the railroad has been mostly dormant since.
The line is owned by
Palmetto Railways
References
External links
Palmetto Railways
Railway companies established in 1891
1891 establishments in South Carolina
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