My trip to the Carolina Southern offered a few mysteries or rather, questions. The first has to do with ownership of the Railroad. In looking at ownership, the research mention that the railroad wasn now a division of Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad. In looking up information on the B&A, research call the railroad defunk. Further research gave a business address to the railroad. I now only see several options. It is no longer operating trains under its own name but is a holding company for other railroads. The only other option is that the research that I found is outdated.
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| Baltimore and Annapolis Engine #87, stored at Chadbourn, NC |
The next mystery was the station at Chadbourn, NC. Rather, the nature of the two stations, there. When two stations exixt in a town, it is from two railroads crossing in town, one station for each raiload, However, here there was only one railroad. I found out that the passenger station is no longer used for the railroad and is nicely restored. The station that is used as office space for the railroad was the freight station, mystery solved.
I first had question about 4002. It was not listed in any engine rosters. I did see a video of it pulling a train and an history. The other mystery engine was 3617. I still haven't seen it in any roster. 2613 is listed having faint impression of both ACL and Southern Heritage and is listed in rosters. 3617 is interesting that the numbering style is the same as the Laurenburg Southern. If you look carefully at the cab, you can see a shawdow of what may be the Laurenburg Southern logo. If anyone has information I would be interested.
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