Carolina and Western Railroad
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Carolina and Western Railroad
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The Carolina and Western Railroad was a South Carolina logging railroad that operated in the early decades of the 20th century.
Chartered in 1902, the Carolina and Western was built to serve the W.F. Cummings Company.
According to Thomas Fetters' book Logging Railroads of South Carolina, lumber mill workers laid the rails; the mill shut down periodically, specifically to relocate or extend the line to reach new sources of timber. The lack of experience and haphazard development of the line made
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Logging railroad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_and_Western_Railroad
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2021-07-21T08:50:18Z
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