Railroad Facilities

This information was first published in 1888:

RAILROAD FACILITIES.

AS indicated in a preceding page, Charlotte is a very important railroad centre, perhaps the most important of any city between Washington and Atlanta.

It is the southern terminus of the main line of the Richmond & Danville system, and three branch lines of that company terminate here. The railroad facilities can best be appreciated by a glance at a map. We are on the main line from New York to New Orleans, and four express and mail trains between these two places pass here every twenty-four hours. The A.T. & O. division of the Richmond & Danville connects at Statesville with the Western North Carolina Road, giving our city access to the west in that direction. The Richmond & Danville gives us an outlet to the north through Washington, Richmond and West Point, and the Seaboard Air Line gives us an outlet via Norfolk and Wilmington. The Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta, and the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line, divisions of the Richmond & Danville, give us outlets for all southern points. A survey is now being made for a new railroad from Charlotte east to Weldon. This road will pass through some of the richest counties in the State, and some of which have heretofore been without railroad facilities. An election is pending in Mecklenburg for the purpose of voting bonds in aid of the construction of this road, and also to aid the building of a road from Charlotte to Lancaster, there to connect with the 3 C's road, by which an independent connection will be secured with Charleston and Cincinnati. Twenty passenger trains arrive at and depart from Charlotte every twenty four hours. There are four depots in the city, Carolina Central, passenger and freight, and the Richmond & Danville, passenger and freight. Cuts are given in this book of the handsome passenger station of the Richmond & Danville, and the freight depot of the Carolina Central.