Since the opening of the first permanent railway in 1833; hundreds of railroad companies have operated in North Carolina. Rail transportation; faster and more efficient than other methods of the era; opened new markets for the products of North Carolina�s farms; factories; and mines. Over the years; North Carolina rail companies have ranged in size from well-engineered giants like the Southern Railway to temporary logging railroads like the Hemlock. Cross ties and rails were laid across almost every conceivable terrain: tidal marshes; sand hills; rolling piedmont; and mountain grades. Vulnerable to the turbulent and unregulated economies of the day; few railroad companies escaped reorganizations and receiverships during their corporate lives; often leaving tangled and contradictory histories in their passing.
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