The Railroad was an
American railroad that existed between the
1880s and
1967 , when it merged with the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, its longtime rival, to form the
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. The company was headquartered in
Richmond, Virginia .
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The earliest portion of the SAL system was built as the
Portsmouth And Weldon Railroad , which began operating in 1835 in southeastern Virginia and a small section of northeastern North Carolina, linking the
Roanoke River to the harbor at
Hampton Roads . It was later known as the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad, and then the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad.
The SAL main line, now mostly
CSX 's "S" Line, was built by the following companies:
- Richmond, Petersburg And Carolina Railroad , Richmond, Virginia to Norlina, North Carolina (the immediate predecessor of the SAL)
- Raleigh And Gaston Railroad , Norlina to Raleigh, North Carolina
- Raleigh And Augusta Air-Line Railroad , Raleigh to Hamlet, North Carolina
- Palmetto Railroad , Hamlet to Cheraw, South Carolina
- Chesterfield And Kershaw Railroad , Cheraw to Camden, South Carolina
- Predecessors of the Florida Central And Peninsular Railroad :
- --- South Bound Railroad , Camden to Savannah, Georgia
- --- Florida Central And Peninsular Railroad Northern Division, Savannah to Georgia/Florida state line
- --- Florida Northern Railroad , state line to Yulee, Florida
- --- Fernandina And Jacksonville Railroad , Yulee to Jacksonville, Florida
- --- Florida, Atlantic And Gulf Central Railroad , Jacksonville to Baldwin, Florida
- --- Florida Railroad , Baldwin (continuing north to Yulee) to Waldo, Florida
- --- Florida Transit And Peninsular Railroad Tampa Division, Waldo to Tampa, Florida
On
July 1 ,
1967 the SAL merged with the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad , its longtime rival, to form the
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad .
