The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-09-09

Or s. 4. |. To
CHARLESTON
PREDICTED THAT
ONE OF THE TWO
EXTEND INTO COAST CITY
Spartanburg Terminus of Carolina,
CIinchfield & Ohio, According
to Late Railroad Reports.

off the Carolina, Clfnctield and Ohio
abroad company does not build line
o Charleston, the Seaboard Air Line
will, and arrangements between these
ystems will be made by which the
rains of the ClinchHeld road will be
lauled to Charleston over the line of
he Seaboard,n said an official of the
Seaboard Air Line, according to spe-
:ial dispatch from Hamlet, n c., to
he Charleston News and Courier.
According to recent developments in
he railroad world it is likely that the
1linchfield people will stop their road
II Spartanburg, and will use that city
rs distributing point for the Pied
mont country and for points on the
main line of the Southern between At
anita and Charlotte. The Seaboard
Air Line wants to get into Charleston,
md has, in fact, surveyed out route,
md some of the track to be used has
been constructed recently. In the
event the Seaboard builds to Charles
on, the Clinchfield system will COM
Dine its terminal site there with that
already secured by the Seabord, and
should the Clinchtield road go to
Charleston the Seaboard will let that
system have its terminal site.
Route Of SeabOard.
The route of the Seaboard Air Line
TO Charleston will be from Shelby, n.
G., and will touch Catawba, FIT. Lawn,
Lugoff and Eastover. At Catawba it
will cross the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern (Seaboard) road running be-
tween Atlanta and Monroe. At Lugoff
the road will cross the main line of the
Seaboard between NewYork and Tam
pa, and will make close connection be-
tween Columbia and Atlanta. Al
Eastover the road will cross the Will
Columbia and Augusta (At-
lantic Coast Line) railroad. Between
Catawba and Fort Lawn the road will
touch all the large power plants of the
southern power companies on the Wa
teree river. In order to have theil
trains handled into Charleston ovel
this line it will be necessary for tht
Clinchfield system to use the SeaboarC
track from Bostic to Shelby, distance
of about twenty-one miles. The Sea
board track between Shelby and Viii
mington has been greatly improved
heavier rail has been put down and thu
roadbed has been ballasted. This wa.
done to handle the Clinchfield trains Il
Wilmington, where large wharves ant
depots are now being constructed.
When the line to Charleston is estab
lished the Clinchiield system will con
tinue using the Seaboard road TO Viii
mington in order 10 supply the III
manufacturing concerns which hav
contracted to use the Clinchfisld coal
Wilmington will not be used to an,
great extent for shipping coal, as TIL
harbor facilities are not adequate
Charleston, on the contrary, has excel
lent harbor facilities, and this, Will
other attractions, had induced the rail
road people to decide on that ely.
Clinehfeld Construction.
AT present the ClinchfieId road is be
ing constructed between BoStic am
Spartanburg. Bostic is only five mile
east of Rutherlordton, Nc, and TWEEN
ty-one miles west of Shelby, n. G. |
can readily be seen, then, that tn
Clinchlield trains, coming to Bostic, o
the main line, can he easily switche
on the Seaboard road and detoured |
Shelby, there to take the new line
Charleston.
The SeaboaFd company has construct
ed line thirty-eignI miles i'll lengt
between Cataw III Junction and Fol
Lawn, and has used the specification
of the Clinchfield system in putin
down this track. The grades are nt
more than iiNo-tenths of one per cen
and the rails used are as heavy as thos
used on the Clinchfield road. TIL
route from Fort Lawn TO Lugotf HI
surveyed out, and when the road b,
tween those points is constructed ski
miles of the proposed cross-state roa
will be completed. The distance frol
IIugotf to PASSOVER is not great, an
| from Eastoyer TO Charleston by Il
proposed route the distance is l1G mile
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