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Route Screenshots
Route Specifications:
Timeframe - Summer of 1974
Raleigh, NC - S156.2 to Hamlet, NC - S253.4
(Modeled from Edgeton, NC S154.8 to S254.1)
97.2 Miles (99.3 actual modeled miles)
Design Notes - DEM data from USGS NED data.
TransDEM designed for absolute correctness in profile and terrain.
Topographic overlay from 1979 used to accurately portray tree lines, roads,
homes and waterways.
Topography - Undulating rolling hills through North
Carolina's rich Sand Hill region. Pine tree dominated vegetation.
Sandy/clay soil mixed with red clay. Cotton, tobacco, pine products
and soy are prime agricultural items.
Shippers Include:
- Wilson Parts Company
- Armco
- Universal Distributing Co.
- North Carolina Butane Gas
- Aeroglide Corp.
- Public Service Co.
- Allied Chemical Co.
- Phoenix Utility Co.
- Federal Paper Board Co.
- Cape Fear Wood Co.
- McDonald Bros. Inc.
- Taylor Mobile Homes
- Southern Products and Silica
- West End Table Co.
- Carolina Silica
Background - Originally built by the Raleigh and
Augusta Railroad and later brought into the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
System. This section was to be part of the Richmond to Miami mainline,
better known as the Silver Route. Passenger service included:
- Silver Meteor
- Silver Star
- Silver Comet
- The Sunland
- The Tidewater
- The Palmland
- Passenger and Mail Express
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version
Excerpt from Raleigh Division ETT #5, dated April 24, 1977.
Apex, NC - Page 27 from the 1977 Raleigh Division Condensed Profile
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