Seaboard Air Line Railroad
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad ( SAL for short ) was an American railroad company that merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad , a long-time competitor, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad between April 10, 1900 and July 1, 1967 , operated several railway lines in the east of the country. The company's headquarters were in Richmond, Virginia .
history
The first parts of the SAL route network were commissioned in 1835 by the Portsmouth and Weldon Railroad in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina . It was then that the Roanoke River was connected to the port of Hampton Roads . The railway company was later renamed Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and later still Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad .
The main line of the SAL, now mainly owned by CSX Transportation , was built by the following railway companies:
- Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad , Richmond to Norlina (the immediate predecessor of SAL)
- Raleigh and Gaston Railroad , Norlina to Raleigh
- Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line Railroad , Raleigh to Hamlet
- Palmetto Railroad , Hamlet to Cheraw
- Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad , Cheraw to Camden
- Predecessor of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad :
- South Bound Railroad , Camden to Savannah
- Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad Savannah to the Georgia / Florida border
- Florida Northern Railroad , Yulee border
- Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad , Yulee to Jacksonville
- Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad , Jacksonville to Baldwin
- Florida Railroad , Baldwin to Waldo
- Florida Transit and Peninsular Railroad , Waldo to Tampa
