Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad

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Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad
Dates of operation 18781879
Successor Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad was a Carolinian railroad company, chartered shortly after the end of the Reconstruction Era of the United States.

South Carolina State of the United States of America

South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States and the easternmost of the Deep South. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the southwest by Georgia across the Savannah River.

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Creation

The Belton, Williamston and Easley Railroad was created by an act of the South Carolina General Assembly in 1878.

South Carolina General Assembly

The South Carolina General Assembly, also called the South Carolina Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of South Carolina. The legislature is bicameral and consists of the lower South Carolina House of Representatives and the upper South Carolina Senate. Altogether, the General Assembly consists of 170 members. The legislature convenes at the State House in Columbia.

Name change

The following year (1879) its name was changed to the Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad Company of South Carolina. [1]

The Atlantic and French Broad Valley Railroad was a railroad that served South Carolina in the period immediately following the Reconstruction Era of the United States.

See also

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References

  1. Wikipedia, WikiProject Trains, ICC valuations, Southern Railway