Name |
Mark |
System[nb 1] |
From |
To |
Successor |
Notes |
Air Line Railroad in South Carolina |
|
SOU |
1856 |
1870 |
Atlanta and Richmond Air–Line Railway |
Alcolu Railroad |
ALU |
|
1902 |
1936 |
N/A |
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad |
|
SOU |
1881 |
1902 |
Southern Railway – Carolina Division |
Ashley River Railroad |
|
ACL |
1876 |
1901 |
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway |
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway |
|
SOU |
1877 |
1996 |
Norfolk Southern Railway |
Atlanta and Richmond Air–Line Railway |
|
SOU |
1870 |
1876 |
South Carolina Air–Line Railway |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
ACL |
ACL |
1898 |
1967 |
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad |
|
SOU |
1879 |
1882 |
French Broad and Atlantic Railway |
Atlantic, Greenville and Western Railway |
|
ACL |
1885 |
1887 |
Carolina, Knoxville and Western Railway |
Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad |
|
SOU |
1885 |
1887 |
Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad |
Augusta and Edgefield Railroad |
|
SOU |
1884 |
1885 |
Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad |
Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad |
|
SOU |
1885 |
1887 |
Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad |
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad |
|
ACL |
1880 |
1886 |
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway |
Augusta, Knoxville and Greenwood Railroad |
|
ACL |
|
1880 |
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad |
Augusta Northern Railway |
|
|
1912 |
1941 |
N/A |
Bamberg, Ehrhardt and Walterboro Railway |
|
|
1913 |
1938 |
N/A |
Barnwell Railway |
|
SOU |
1882 |
1891 |
Carolina Midland Railway |
Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad |
|
SOU |
1878 |
1879 |
Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad |
Bennettsville and Cheraw Railroad |
B&CW |
|
1902 |
1950 |
N/A |
Bennettsville and Osborne Railroad |
|
|
1899 |
1902 |
Bennettsville and Cheraw Railroad |
Berkeley Railroad |
|
|
1892 |
1906 |
N/A |
Bishopville Railroad |
|
ACL |
1882 |
1892 |
South and North Carolina Railroad |
Blackville and Alston Railroad |
|
SOU |
1885 |
1886 |
Blackville, Alston and Newberry Railroad |
Blackville, Alston and Newberry Railroad |
|
SOU |
1886 |
1891 |
Carolina Midland Railway |
Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina |
|
SOU |
1852 |
1880 |
Greenville and Columbia Railroad |
Blue Ridge Railway |
BLR |
SOU |
1901 |
|
|
Branchville and Bowman Railroad |
|
|
1890 |
1925 |
N/A |
Buffalo Union-Carolina Railroad |
|
|
1922 |
1971 |
N/A |
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway |
|
ACL |
1881 |
1898 |
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad |
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway |
|
SAL |
1914 |
1915 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway of South Carolina |
|
ACL/ L&N |
1909 |
1990 |
CSX Transportation |
Carolina and Cumberland Gap Railway |
|
SOU |
1896 |
1898 |
SOU |
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway |
|
SOU |
1882 |
1895 |
Carolina and Cumberland Gap Railway |
Carolina, Knoxville and Western Railway |
|
ACL |
1887 |
1899 |
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, Greenville and Knoxville Railway |
Carolina Midland Railway |
|
SOU |
1891 |
1902 |
Southern Railway – Carolina Division |
Carolina Northern Railroad |
|
SAL |
1899 |
1905 |
Raleigh and Charleston Railroad |
Carolina and Northwestern Railway |
CRN |
SOU |
1982 |
1988 |
Southern Railway |
Carolina and Northwestern Railway |
CR&N |
SOU |
1900 |
1974 |
Norfolk Southern Railway |
Carolina Western Railroad |
CARW |
|
1923 |
1971 |
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
Carolina and Western Railroad |
|
|
1902 |
1916 |
|
Catawba Valley Railway |
|
SAL |
1906 |
1909 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Central Railroad of South Carolina |
|
ACL |
1878 |
|
|
Still exists as a lessor of CSX Transportation |
Central of Georgia Railroad |
CG |
SOU |
1971 |
1972 |
N/A |
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad |
|
SOU |
1888 |
1893 |
Ohio River and Charleston Railway |
Charleston and Northern Railroad |
|
ACL |
1895 |
1895 |
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, Manchester and Augusta Railroad, Wilson and Summerton Railroad |
Charleston Northern Railway |
|
SAL |
1913 |
1914 |
North and South Carolina Railway |
Charleston and Savannah Railroad |
|
ACL |
1853 |
1867 |
Savannah and Charleston Railroad |
Charleston and Savannah Railway |
|
ACL |
1880 |
1901 |
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway |
Charleston Southern Railway |
|
SAL |
1915 |
1915 |
North and South Carolina Railway |
Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad |
|
ACL |
1890 |
1895 |
Charleston and Northern Railroad |
Charleston Terminal Company |
|
ACL/ SOU |
1903 |
1921 |
|
Charleston Union Station Company |
|
ACL/ SOU |
1902 |
1970 |
N/A |
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway |
C&WC, CWC |
ACL |
1896 |
1959 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
|
SOU |
1869 |
1894 |
SOU |
Charlotte, Monroe and Columbia Railroad |
|
SAL |
1901 |
1940 |
N/A |
Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad |
|
SOU |
1846 |
1869 |
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
Cheraw and Chester Railroad |
|
|
1873 |
1896 |
Lancaster and Chester Railway |
Cheraw and Coalfields Railroad |
|
ACL |
1867 |
1868 |
Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad |
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad |
|
ACL |
1849 |
1898 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad |
|
ACL |
1868 |
1882 |
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad |
Chester, Greenwood and Abbeville Railroad |
|
SAL |
1885 |
1886 |
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway |
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad |
|
SOU |
1873 |
1897 |
Carolina and Northwestern Railway |
Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad |
|
SAL |
1889 |
1901 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Chesterfield and Lancaster Railroad |
|
SAL |
1887 |
1941 |
N/A |
Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad |
|
SOU |
1835 |
1836 |
Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad |
Clinchfield Railroad |
CRR |
ACL/ L&N |
1924 |
1983 |
Seaboard System Railroad |
Colleton County Railroad |
CCYR |
|
1986 |
1988 |
Hampton and Branchville Railroad |
Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
|
SOU |
1863 |
1869 |
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
Columbia and Greenville Railroad |
|
SOU |
1880 |
1894 |
Blue Ridge Railway, Southern Railway |
Columbia and Hamburg Railroad |
|
SOU |
1858 |
1863 |
Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad |
CNL |
ACL |
1886 |
1984 |
Seaboard System Railroad |
Columbia and Sumter Railroad |
|
ACL |
1866 |
1870 |
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
Columbia Union Station Company |
|
ACL/ SOU |
1900 |
1971 |
N/A |
Conway Coast and Western Railroad |
|
ACL |
1904 |
1912 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Conway Seashore Railroad |
|
ACL |
1899 |
1904 |
Conway Coast and Western Railroad |
Due West Railway |
|
|
1907 |
1940 |
N/A |
Duval Transportation of the Carolinas |
|
|
1987 |
1987 |
Mid Atlantic Railroad |
East Shore Terminal Company |
|
ACL/ SOU |
1887 |
1903 |
Charleston Terminal Company |
Eddy Lake and Northern Railroad |
|
|
1905 |
|
|
Edgefield Branch Railroad |
|
SOU |
1878 |
1879 |
Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad |
Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad |
|
SOU |
1879 |
1882 |
French Broad and Atlantic Railway |
Edgemoor and Manetta Railway |
EM |
|
1902 |
1976 |
N/A |
Eutawville Railroad |
|
ACL |
1885 |
1890 |
Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad |
Florence Railroad |
|
ACL |
1882 |
1898 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Florence and Fayetteville Railroad |
|
ACL |
1861 |
1881 |
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway |
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad |
|
SAL |
1893 |
1900 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
French Broad and Atlantic Railway |
|
SOU |
1882 |
1882 |
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway |
Georgetown and Lane's Railroad |
|
SAL |
1881 |
1887 |
Georgetown and Western Railroad |
Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad |
|
SOU |
1882 |
1885 |
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad |
Georgetown and North Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad |
|
SOU |
1878 |
1882 |
Georgetown and North Carolina Railroad |
Georgetown and Western Railroad |
|
SAL |
1887 |
1915 |
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway |
Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad |
|
SOU |
1887 |
1887 |
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad |
Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway |
|
SAL |
1886 |
1901 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Georgia and Florida Railroad |
G&F |
SOU |
1926 |
1963 |
Georgia and Florida Railway |
Georgia and Florida Railway |
G&F, GF |
SOU |
1963 |
1971 |
Central of Georgia Railroad |
Glenn Springs Railroad |
|
|
1894 |
1911 |
N/A |
Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railroad |
|
ACL |
1900 |
1901 |
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway |
Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railway |
|
ACL |
1887 |
1900 |
Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railroad |
Greenville and Columbia Railroad |
|
SOU |
1845 |
1880 |
Columbia and Greenville Railroad |
Greenville and Knoxville Railroad |
|
|
1904 |
1914 |
Greenville and Western Railway |
Greenville and Laurens Railroad |
|
ACL |
1878 |
1886 |
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway |
Greenville and Northern Railway |
GRN |
|
1920 |
1997 |
Carolina Piedmont Railroad |
Greenville and Port Royal Railroad |
|
ACL |
1882 |
1885 |
Atlantic, Greenville and Western Railway |
Greenville and Western Railroad |
|
|
1914 |
1920 |
Greenville and Northern Railroad |
Greenville and Western Railway |
|
|
1911 |
1969 |
|
Greenwood, Anderson and Western Railway |
|
SOU |
1895 |
1897 |
Sievern and Knoxville Railroad |
Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad |
|
ACL |
1880 |
1886 |
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway |
Hampton and Branchville Railroad and Lumber Company |
HB |
|
1891 |
1924 |
Hampton and Branchville Railroad |
Hartsville Railroad |
|
ACL |
1884 |
1895 |
Cheraw and Darlington Railroad |
Horry County Railway |
HCYR |
|
1984 |
1987 |
Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad |
Kings Mountain Railroad |
|
SOU |
1848 |
1874 |
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad |
Laurens Railroad |
|
ACL |
1847 |
1881 |
Laurens Railway |
Laurens Railway |
|
ACL |
1879 |
1895 |
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad |
Lockhart Railroad |
|
SOU |
1899 |
|
N/A |
Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad |
|
SOU |
1836 |
1843 |
South Carolina Railroad |
Manchester and Augusta Railroad |
|
ACL |
1870 |
1898 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Marion County Railway |
|
|
1984 |
1985 |
N/A |
Marion and Southern Railroad |
|
SAL |
1907 |
1937 |
N/A |
Mid Atlantic Railroad |
MRR |
|
1987 |
1995 |
Carolina Southern Railroad |
Newberry and Laurens Railroad |
|
ACL |
1885 |
1886 |
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad |
Newberry, Whitmire and Augusta Railroad |
|
|
1906 |
1910 |
Augusta Northern Railway |
Norfolk Southern Railway |
NS |
SOU |
1974 |
1982 |
Carolina and Northwestern Railway |
North Charleston Terminal Company |
|
ACL/ SAL/ SOU |
1916 |
|
|
Still exists as a joint subsidiary of CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway |
North and South Carolina Railway |
|
SAL |
1908 |
1914 |
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway |
Northeastern Railroad |
|
ACL |
1851 |
1898 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Northwestern Railroad of South Carolina |
|
ACL |
1899 |
1935 |
N/A |
Ohio River and Charleston Railway |
|
SOU |
1894 |
1898 |
South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad |
Orangeburg Railway |
|
|
1911 |
1920 |
N/A |
Palmetto Railroad |
|
SAL |
1882 |
1895 |
Palmetto Railway |
Palmetto Railway |
|
SAL |
1895 |
1900 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Pee Dee Bridge Company |
|
SAL |
1911 |
1915 |
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway |
Pickens Railroad |
PICK |
|
1892 |
1996 |
Pickens Railway |
Piedmont and Northern Railway |
P&N |
|
1911 |
1969 |
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
Electric until 1954 |
Plant System |
|
ACL |
1894 |
1902 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Port Royal Railroad |
|
ACL |
1856 |
1878 |
Port Royal and Augusta Railway |
Port Royal and Augusta Railway |
|
ACL |
1878 |
1896 |
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway |
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway |
|
ACL |
1886 |
1896 |
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway |
Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad |
|
SAL |
1878 |
1901 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Raleigh and Charleston Railroad |
|
SAL |
1905 |
1941 |
N/A |
Raleigh and Gaston Railroad |
|
SAL |
1889 |
1900 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Richmond and Danville Railroad |
|
SOU |
1879 |
1894 |
Southern Railway |
Rockingham Railroad |
RKG |
ACL |
1910 |
1968 |
N/A |
Rockton and Rion Railway |
ROR |
|
1932 |
1981 |
N/A |
Savannah and Charleston Railroad |
|
ACL |
1866 |
1880 |
Charleston and Savannah Railway |
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway |
|
ACL |
1901 |
1902 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Savannah Valley Railroad |
|
ACL |
|
1886 |
Port Royal and Western Carolina Railway |
Seaboard Air Line Railroad |
SAL |
SAL |
1946 |
1967 |
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
|
SAL |
1900 |
1945 |
Seaboard Air Line Railroad |
Seaboard Air Line System |
|
SAL |
1893 |
1900 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
SCL |
|
1967 |
1983 |
Seaboard System Railroad |
Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad |
|
SAL |
1889 |
1900 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
Seaboard System Railroad |
SBD |
|
1983 |
1986 |
CSX Transportation |
Sievern and Knoxville Railroad |
|
SOU |
1898 |
1933 |
N/A |
South and North Carolina Railroad |
|
ACL |
1892 |
1996 |
Manchester and Augusta Railroad |
South Bound Railroad |
|
SAL |
1882 |
1901 |
Seaboard Air Line Railway |
South Carolina Railroad |
|
SOU |
1843 |
1881 |
South Carolina Railway |
South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company |
|
SOU |
1827 |
1844 |
South Carolina Railroad |
South Carolina Railway |
|
SOU |
1881 |
1894 |
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad |
South Carolina Air–Line Railway |
|
SOU |
1877 |
1877 |
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway |
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad |
|
SOU |
1894 |
1902 |
Southern Railway – Carolina Division |
South Carolina and Georgia Extension Railroad |
|
SOU |
1898 |
1902 |
Southern Railway – Carolina Division |
South Carolina Pacific Railway |
|
ACL |
1882 |
1984 |
Seaboard System Railroad |
South Carolina Terminal Company |
|
ACL/ SOU |
1893 |
1903 |
Charleston Terminal Company |
South Carolina Western Railway |
|
SAL |
1910 |
1914 |
North and South Carolina Railway |
South Carolina Western Extension Railway |
|
SAL |
1913 |
1914 |
North and South Carolina Railway |
South and North Carolina Railroad |
|
ACL |
1892 |
1896 |
Manchester and Augusta Railroad |
South and Western Railroad |
|
ACL/ L&N |
1908 |
1909 |
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway of South Carolina |
Southern Railway |
SOU |
SOU |
1894 |
1990 |
Norfolk Southern Railway |
Southern Railway – Carolina Division |
|
SOU |
1902 |
1996 |
Norfolk Southern Railway |
Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad |
|
SOU |
1873 |
1881 |
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad |
Spartanburg and Union Railroad |
|
SOU |
1847 |
1873 |
Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Railroad |
Spartanburg, Union and Columbia Railroad |
|
SOU |
1878 |
1896 |
Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad |
Sumter and Wateree River Railroad |
|
SOU |
1898 |
1902 |
Southern Railway – Carolina Division |
Union, Gaffney City and Rutherfordton Railroad |
|
SOU |
1878 |
1885 |
Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad |
Union and Glenn Springs Railroad |
|
|
1899 |
1922 |
Buffalo Union-Carolina Railroad |
Walterboro and Western Railway |
|
ACL |
1894 |
1900 |
Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railroad |
Ware Shoals Railroad |
WS |
|
1908 |
1985 |
N/A |
Williamsburg Railroad |
|
ACL |
1876 |
1878 |
Central Railroad of South Carolina |
Wilmington and Carolina Railroad |
|
ACL |
1870 |
1870 |
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conway Railroad |
|
ACL |
1885 |
1895 |
Wilmington and Conway Railroad |
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
|
ACL |
1870 |
1898 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Wilmington and Conway Railroad |
|
ACL |
1895 |
1896 |
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad |
Wilmington and Manchester Railroad |
|
ACL |
1846 |
1870 |
Wilmington and Carolina Railroad |
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad |
|
ACL |
1899 |
1900 |
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad |
Wilson and Summerton Railroad |
|
ACL |
1888 |
1899 |
Northwestern Railroad of South Carolina |