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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1964
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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Effect OOlailroads’ Merger Draws
Comment, Speculation Over Section
The long-plafned merger of the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad with
the Atlantic Coast Line, which
has now beenf approved by the
Interstate Combierce Commission,
may mean sorije changes in this
area served' by the Seaboard—
but just what l^ey will be no one
seems to know las yet.
It is likeljl that, in Moore
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county, the only change will be
in the name of the railroad, since
none of the SAL facilities here
are duplicated by th^ ACL.
The system will be known as
the Seaboard Coastline Railroad,
the ICC said, with the Seaboard
as the surviving corporation and
the ACL as the holding company.
The new line will be the na
tion’s second largest in length of
track, with 12,390 miles of it, serv
ing the Southeast from Virginia
to Florida, and exceeded only by
the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa
Fe with 13,000 miles.
The Seaboard Air Line has
been a lifeline of this area for
many years, antedating most of
the towns which lie along it. Most
of them, in fact, grew up as
railroad crossings.
Southern Pines was founded as
a direct result of the Seaboard’s
immigration activities in the
1870’s and 1880’s. So impressed by
the area was John T. Patrick,
SAL immigration agent who laid
out Southern Pines, that he re
signed his job in order to settle
in Pinebluff and work on various
development projects.
Aberdeen wais once known as
Blue’s Crossing. Cameron and
Vass, the other two Moore Coun
ty towns on the Seaboard main
line, are also historically tied in
with the railroad. Manly just
north of Southern Pines, and Ad-
dor, south of Pinebluff—known
until World War I as “Kaiser,”
once were thriving commercial
centers as a result of railroad traf
fic in lumber and naval stores.
Employees of the railroad live
in practically all the towns it
serves, and it pays taxes to all
of them, as well as to the counties.
Some apprehension is being
felt as to how the merger will
affect the employees since it was
reported in the ICC hearings that
it will mean some 4,000 jobs lost
over the next five years.
Hamlet, site of the Seaboard
shops and transfer terminal, in
neighboring Richmond County, is
reported by the Richmond County
Journal of Rockingham to be in
a very apprehensive frame of
mind, dtespite the fact that SAL
president John Smith, recently
speaking there, told his audience
of the plans and added that
“Hamlet will not be hurt.”
While many of the Hamlet faci
lities are not duplicated by the
ACL in this area, it is expected
that some of the switch engine
work could go to the larger ACL
centers at Wilmington and Co
lumbia, S. C.
In addition to the job loss over
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the next five years, a report of
the merger hearings said 117
diesel locomotives and' 41 passen
ger cars would be eliminated. An
engineer’s report also proposed
consolidation of 67 stations and
terminals, seven of them in North
Carolina.
An indication of the types of
jobs to be lost, or of changes to
be made, is the shutting down
of the Rockingham Railroad, a
small lined owned by the Atlantic
Coast Line. Since it is a competing
facility with the Seaboard, it will
be eiiiuinated, the Richmond
County Journal said.
In the ICC official decision it
was written that the merger “will
result in significant reductions in
internal costs and enable the mer
ger company to effectvely meet
the ever-increasing competition
from other modes of transport.”
The Seaboard' currently runs ov
er 4,100 miles of track from Rich
mond and Portsmouth, Va., to
Jacksonville, St. Petersburg,
Miami and Homestead,. Fla. Most
of the duplication of the two lines
is in Virginia and Florida.
Both cooperate with other rail
roads to give direct service—in
cluding streamliner accommoda
tions—to persons traveling the
New York-Florida run:
In general, the better this can
be done, and the greater economic
health of the railroad while cJoing
it, the greater will be the bene
fits eventually accruing to all the
communities which it serves, say
business observers.
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