Carolina Piedmont Railroad seen from Innovation Drive ICAR business Park
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Piedmont_Railroad
The Carolina Piedmont Railroad runs from Laurens SC, to Greenville SC it began as the Greenville and Laurens Railroad, which was chartered in 1878 and arrived in Greenville in 1882.
In 1896 it became (through merger) The Charleston and Western Carolina (which never reached Charleston), bought by Atlantic Coast Lines in 1897, but it continued to operate under the C&WC name. through a series of merges ACL became part of CSX and CSX to sold the portion from Laurens to a point short of downtown Greenville to the Carolina Piedmont Railroad on November 5, 1990.
Carolina Piedmont Railroad seen from Innovation Drive ICAR business Park
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Piedmont_Railroad
The Carolina Piedmont Railroad runs from Laurens SC, to Greenville SC it began as the Greenville and Laurens Railroad, which was chartered in 1878 and arrived in Greenville in 1882.
In 1896 it became (through merger) The Charleston and Western Carolina (which never reached Charleston), bought by Atlantic Coast Lines in 1897, but it continued to operate under the C&WC name. through a series of merges ACL became part of CSX and CSX to sold the portion from Laurens to a point short of downtown Greenville to the Carolina Piedmont Railroad on November 5, 1990.