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Transportation</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Technical</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Track_gauge" title="Track gauge">Track gauge</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="nowrap">4 ft <span class="frac">8<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> in</span> (<span class="nowrap">1,435 mm</span>) <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Standard_gauge" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard gauge">standard gauge</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Previous gauge</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/4_ft_8_in_gauge_railways" title="4 ft 8 in gauge railways"><span class="nowrap">4 ft 8 in</span></a> (<span class="nowrap">1,422 mm</span>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad</b> was organized in 1833 (as the <b>Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad</b>) to extend from the area of the rapids of the <a href="/wiki/Roanoke_River" title="Roanoke River">Roanoke River</a> at its <a href="/wiki/Fall_line" title="Fall line">fall line</a> near <a href="/wiki/Weldon,_North_Carolina" title="Weldon, North Carolina">Weldon, North Carolina</a> to <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_Virginia" title="Portsmouth, Virginia">Portsmouth, Virginia</a>, across the <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_River_(Virginia)" title="Elizabeth River (Virginia)">Elizabeth River</a> from <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a> on the harbor of <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stoomlocomotief,_RP-F-2001-7-1481-5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Stoomlocomotief%2C_RP-F-2001-7-1481-5.jpg/220px-Stoomlocomotief%2C_RP-F-2001-7-1481-5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Stoomlocomotief%2C_RP-F-2001-7-1481-5.jpg/330px-Stoomlocomotief%2C_RP-F-2001-7-1481-5.jpg 1.5x, 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Canals, turnpikes and railroads became important conduits in the <a href="/wiki/Antebellum_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Antebellum era">antebellum</a> period in Virginia. </p><p>The original goal of the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad was to provide a link for shipments of goods originating on the Roanoke River and its <a href="/wiki/Canal" title="Canal">canal</a> system from points west to reach port facilities in the <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk</a> area on the harbor of <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Roads" title="Hampton Roads">Hampton Roads</a>. For such traffic, Norfolk and Portsmouth were fiercely competitive with <a href="/wiki/Petersburg,_Virginia" title="Petersburg, Virginia">Petersburg</a>, which had access to the navigable portion of the <a href="/wiki/James_River_(Virginia)" class="mw-redirect" title="James River (Virginia)">James River</a> at <a href="/wiki/City_Point,_Virginia" title="City Point, Virginia">City Point</a> via about 8 miles of the <a href="/wiki/Appomattox_River" title="Appomattox River">Appomattox River</a> below its fall line, and was also planning rail service from its south and west. </p><p>The new 80-mile (130 km) line, built in <span class="nowrap">4 ft 8 in</span> (<span class="nowrap">1,422 mm</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Track_gauge" title="Track gauge">gauge</a> was first completed in 1835. Some of the intermediate points in Virginia were <a href="/wiki/Boykins,_Virginia" title="Boykins, Virginia">Boykins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Virginia" title="Franklin, Virginia">Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carrsville,_Virginia" title="Carrsville, Virginia">Carrsville</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Suffolk,_Virginia" title="Suffolk, Virginia">Suffolk</a>. Lumber was the largest commodity originating along the line, and the facilities of the Camp Company's lumber and paper mill operations in Franklin were located there due to the new railroad. </p><p>The Seaboard and Roanoke was the first railroad to reach the Norfolk area, which eventually became a busy point for many railroads. However, it was to be more than 20 years before the <a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Petersburg_Railroad" title="Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad">Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad</a>, a predecessor of the <a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_Railway" title="Norfolk and Western Railway">Norfolk and Western Railway</a> built by <a href="/wiki/William_Mahone" title="William Mahone">William Mahone</a>, was completed. Through several financial reorganizations, and refinancing by the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Board_of_Public_Works" title="Virginia Board of Public Works">Virginia Board of Public Works</a> in 1838, it was variously known as the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1837_Head-on_collision_and_Derailment">1837 Head-on collision and Derailment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1837 Head-on collision and Derailment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Suffolk_accident.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Suffolk_accident.jpg/300px-Suffolk_accident.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Suffolk_accident.jpg/450px-Suffolk_accident.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Suffolk_accident.jpg/600px-Suffolk_accident.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="543" /></a><figcaption>Roanoke collision</figcaption></figure> <p>On August 11, 1837 the first head-on railroad collision to result in passenger fatalities in the United States occurred near Suffolk when an eastbound lumber train coming down a grade at speed rounded a sharp curve and smacked into the morning passenger train from Portsmouth, Virginia. The first three of thirteen stagecoach-style cars were smashed, killing three daughters of the prominent Ely family and injuring dozens of the 200 on board. They were returning from a steamboat cruise when the accident happened. An engraving depicting the moment of impact was published in Howland's "Steamboat Disasters and Railroad Accidents" in 1840. </p><p>On December 12 of the same year an eastbound engine of the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad pulling 3 passenger cars and 9 lumber cars loaded with cotton struck an upturned end of a split metal rail 2 miles west of the Nottoway River near the present day village of Handsom in <a href="/wiki/Southampton_County,_Virginia" title="Southampton County, Virginia">Southampton County</a>. The resulting derailment killed a Miss Blow and a Miss Rochelle from Southampton and injured several others including Capt. James D. Bryant whose legs were broken, Col. Nathaniel Rochelle, a Mr. Blow and Miss King and Miss Simmons also of Southampton. Senator William C. Preston of South Carolina who was on board escaped injury.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="American_Civil_War">American Civil War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: American Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ocm27675413_V_0.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Ocm27675413_V_0.pdf/page1-220px-Ocm27675413_V_0.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Ocm27675413_V_0.pdf/page1-330px-Ocm27675413_V_0.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Ocm27675413_V_0.pdf/page1-440px-Ocm27675413_V_0.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="935" data-file-height="1310" /></a><figcaption>Thirteenth annual report of the president and directors to the stockholders of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company March 28, 1861.</figcaption></figure> <p>One of the Seaboard and Roanoke's builders from the mid-1830s' was <a href="/wiki/Walter_Gwynn" title="Walter Gwynn">Walter Gwynn</a>, who, during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, became a <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> General assigned to take charge of the defenses of Norfolk, which were held by the southern troops for about a year in 1861–62. Early in that period, fellow railroader William Mahone used his Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and ruse tactics to feign massive arrivals of additional <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> troops at Norfolk. Without a single shot fired, he successfully tricked the small detachment of troops holding the <a href="/wiki/Gosport_Shipyard" class="mw-redirect" title="Gosport Shipyard">Gosport Shipyard</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Navy_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Norfolk Navy Yard">Norfolk Navy Yard</a>) into abandoning it for the safety of Union-held <a href="/wiki/Fort_Monroe" title="Fort Monroe">Fort Monroe</a> across the harbor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mergers:_SAL,_SCL,_CSX"><span id="Mergers:_SAL.2C_SCL.2C_CSX"></span>Mergers: SAL, SCL, CSX</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mergers: SAL, SCL, CSX"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Subdivision" title="Portsmouth Subdivision">Portsmouth Subdivision</a></div> <p>In the 1880s, the Seaboard and Roanoke became part of the <a href="/wiki/Seaboard_Air_Line_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaboard Air Line Railway">Seaboard Air Line Railway</a> system, which was extended through Petersburg to reach <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond</a> to the north and covered the southeastern states to reach <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>. </p><p>In 1967, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad merged with its arch-rival, the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Line_Railroad" title="Atlantic Coast Line Railroad">Atlantic Coast Line</a> railroad to form <a href="/wiki/Seaboard_Coast_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Seaboard Coast Line">Seaboard Coast Line</a> Industries (SCL). </p><p>SCL merged with the <a href="/wiki/Chessie_System" title="Chessie System">Chessie System</a> in 1980, to form <a href="/wiki/CSX_Transportation" title="CSX Transportation">CSX Transportation</a>, which is currently one of seven major <a href="/wiki/Class_1_railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Class 1 railroad">Class 1 railroads</a> operating in North America in the 21st century. Most of the line remains in service today, which is now CSX's <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Subdivision" title="Portsmouth Subdivision">Portsmouth Subdivision</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Future">Future</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Future"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A portion of the line in the cities of Suffolk and western <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake,_Virginia" title="Chesapeake, Virginia">Chesapeake</a> has been included in studies by the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Department_of_Rail_and_Public_Transportation" title="Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation">Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation</a> of the feasibility of Richmond-South Hampton Roads High Speed Passenger Rail service. A suburban Norfolk-area station has been projected to be located near <a href="/wiki/Bowers_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Bowers Hill">Bowers Hill</a> in Chesapeake. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Suffolk_Passenger_Station">Suffolk Passenger Station</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Suffolk Passenger Station"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The circa-1885 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.suffolktrainstation.com/">Seaboard Passenger Station</a> at <a href="/wiki/Suffolk,_Virginia" title="Suffolk, Virginia">Suffolk, Virginia</a> was shared with the coal hauling <a href="/wiki/Virginian_Railway" title="Virginian Railway">Virginian Railway</a> when it was built adjacently in the early 20th century. Featuring a brick octagonal cupola for its telegraph operators, the station was restored and now houses a railroad museum, operating model trains based upon of Suffolk around 1907, and a gift shop.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historic_Station_listing">Historic Station listing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Historic Station listing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>State </th> <th>Milepost<sup id="cite_ref-SAL_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SAL-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>City/Location </th> <th>Station<sup id="cite_ref-Ferguson_NC_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ferguson_NC-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Connections and notes </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="14"><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">VA</a> </td> <td>SA 0.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth,_Virginia" title="Portsmouth, Virginia">Portsmouth</a> </td> <td>Portsmouth </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 7.5 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chesapeake,_Virginia" title="Chesapeake, Virginia">Chesapeake</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bower%27s_Hill,_Virginia" title="Bower's Hill, Virginia">Bowers</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 15.1 </td> <td> </td> <td>Magnolia </td> <td>junction with <a href="/wiki/Virginian_Railway" title="Virginian Railway">Virginian Railway</a> (<a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_Railway" title="Norfolk and Western Railway">N&W</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 17.5 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Suffolk,_Virginia" title="Suffolk, Virginia">Suffolk</a> </td> <td>Suffolk </td> <td>junction with:<br /><div><ul><li>Norfolk and Carolina Railroad (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Line_Railroad" title="Atlantic Coast Line Railroad">ACL</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_and_Danville_Railway" title="Atlantic and Danville Railway">Atlantic and Danville Railway</a> (<a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_Railway" title="Norfolk and Western Railway">N&W</a>)</li></ul></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 20.2 </td> <td> </td> <td>Kilby </td> <td>junction with <a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Petersburg_Railroad" title="Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad">Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad</a> (<a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_Railway" title="Norfolk and Western Railway">N&W</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 26.2 </td> <td> </td> <td>Purvis </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 31.4 </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carrsville,_Virginia" title="Carrsville, Virginia">Carrsville</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 37.1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Virginia" title="Franklin, Virginia">Franklin</a> </td> <td>Franklin </td> <td>also known as Blackwater<br />junction with <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_and_Danville_Railway" title="Atlantic and Danville Railway">Atlantic and Danville Railway</a> (<a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_Railway" title="Norfolk and Western Railway">N&W</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 42.0 </td> <td> </td> <td>Delaware </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 43.7 </td> <td> </td> <td>Hand </td> <td>also known as Handsom </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 49.1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Newsoms,_Virginia" title="Newsoms, Virginia">Newsoms</a> </td> <td>Newsoms </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 54.1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boykins,_Virginia" title="Boykins, Virginia">Boykins</a> </td> <td>Boykins </td> <td>junction with <a href="/wiki/Seaboard_Air_Line_Railroad" title="Seaboard Air Line Railroad">Seaboard Air Line Railroad</a> Lewiston Subdivision </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 57.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Branchville,_Virginia" title="Branchville, Virginia">Branchville</a> </td> <td>Branchville </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 59.9 </td> <td> </td> <td>Hugo </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">NC</a> </td> <td>SA 63.2 </td> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Margarettsville,_North_Carolina" title="Margarettsville, North Carolina">Margarettsville</a> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 69.2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seaboard,_North_Carolina" title="Seaboard, North Carolina">Seaboard</a> </td> <td>Seaboard </td> <td>originally Concord </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 72.6 </td> <td> </td> <td>Gumberry </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 76.2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Garysburg,_North_Carolina" title="Garysburg, North Carolina">Garysburg</a> </td> <td>Garysburg </td> <td>junction with <a href="/wiki/Petersburg_Railroad" title="Petersburg Railroad">Petersburg Railroad</a> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Line_Railroad" title="Atlantic Coast Line Railroad">ACL</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>SA 78.8 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Weldon,_North_Carolina" title="Weldon, North Carolina">Weldon</a> </td> <td>Weldon </td> <td>junction with:<br /><div><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raleigh_and_Gaston_Railroad" title="Raleigh and Gaston Railroad">Raleigh and Gaston Railroad</a> (<a href="/wiki/Seaboard_Air_Line_Railroad" title="Seaboard Air Line Railroad">SAL</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Wilmington_and_Weldon_Railroad" title="Wilmington and Weldon Railroad">Wilmington and Weldon Railroad</a> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Coast_Line_Railroad" title="Atlantic Coast Line Railroad">ACL</a>)</li></ul></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seaboard_and_Roanoke_Railroad&action=edit&section=8" 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