The Nash County Railroad ( reporting mark NCYR ) was the operator of the Rocky Mount & Western railroad, connecting with CSX Transportation at Rocky Mount and running 14.7 miles (23.7 km) to Nashville, North Carolina . This short line railroad was created in 1985 and was formerly a subsidiary of Gulf and Ohio Railways . The line is now operated by the Carolina Coastal Railway .
5-588: Commodities included poultry feed ingredients, steel, scrap metal, fertilizer, concrete, and railcar storage, which accounted for around 3,500 annual carloads. The railroad rosterered three EMD GP38s , numbered 345, 2068, and 9657. Originally built as the Nashville Branch of the Wilmington & Weldon in 1887, the railroad was later absorbed by the Atlantic Coast Line in 1900. Ownership changed through
10-525: A GP38-2 (GP38AC), by the removal of the turbocharger and the substitution of twin Roots blowers . In 2007, Norfolk Southern rebuilt #2911 which is an ex Penn Central GP38 into an experimental zero-emissions Battery-Electric locomotive known as the Altoona Works BP4 . The new locomotive was renumbered as NS #999. It has since been sold to Rail Propulsions Systems, where it was upgraded for eventual use in
15-695: A pair of mergers, first into the Seaboard Coast Line in 1967 and the Seaboard System in 1983. On November 4, 1985 shortline service began as the Nash County railroad by parent company Laurinburg & Southern . In the 1990s Gulf & Ohio Railways gained control of a number of Laurinburg & Southern subsidiaries, including the Nash County railroad on February 28, 1994. Initially traffic consisted of grain, fertilizer, scrap metal, and forest products, amounting to 4,000 annual carloads. On April 8, 2005
20-591: The railroad planned to abandon 4.7 miles (7.6 km) of tracks between Momeyer and Spring Hope, North Carolina . However, the North Carolina Department of Transportation sought to purchase the segment before it was abandoned, which it did on April 3, 2006 after reaching an agreement with the Nash County railroad. EMD GP38 The EMD GP38 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1966 and December 1971. The locomotive's prime mover
25-463: Was an EMD 645 16- cylinder engine that generated 2,000 horsepower (1.49 MW). The company built 706 GP38s for North American railroads. In 1972, EMD began making an updated model, the GP38-2 , as part of its Dash-2 line. A number of GP38s have been rebuilt into the equivalent of a GP38-2. Conversely, a number of higher horsepower 40 Series locomotives have been rebuilt into the equivalent of
#361638