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Eastern North Carolina Claims
Longest Straight Railroad Track
The Longest length of straight
railroad track in the United States
U on the Seaboard Air Line Rail
road in Eaatern North Carolina, ex
actly 78.80 miles without the alight
Mt curve and had it not been (or
one insignificant bend, the tan
gent would have continued anoth
er 10.20 miles before departing
from a straight course.
This track is laid through the
very flat and pretty country of the
North Carolina coastal plain, and
on clear nights the loom of a lo
comotive's headlight can some
times be seen as far as 30 miles
away Old-time railroad engineers
who have worked on this straight
stretch of track say that now and
then they have seen the actual
gleam of an oncoming engine's
headlight 20 miles down the road.
This is rural country and the
nights are usually "dark."
People who live along the lenfeth
of this straight section of the Sea
board rarely have to worry about
whether the train is on time or not.
By stepping dowp to the track they
pan see the train coming over the
horiion and judge how much time
they have before it rolls into the
station.
A man who once worked on a
rail gang along this stright section
said he would quit work when he
saw the headlight of the local pas
senger train two or three station
stops down the line and some 20
miles to the east, go home, wash
up, and then walk two or three
blocks to the station in time to
board the train.
On one occasion an unusual ser
ies of events occurred because of
the exceptionally good visibility
in clear weather on this straight
section of 'track. A local freight
train bound east took a siding late
one night at the little town of
Bladenboro to let the westbound
night local freight pass. The west
bound train's headlight could be
clearly seen standing in the sta
tion at Clarkton. eight miles away.
Clarkton is only 46 milps from the
Atlantic Opean.
Fire Noticed
While the easttwund train was
waiting the conductor noticed a red
glow in the sky near Clarkton and
telephoned to the westbound train
to inquire (bout it. The conductor
at Clarkton said it was a tobacco
warehouse burning and added that
more firefighting equipment ap
parently was needed. The east
bouqd conductor then called the
Seaboard division dispatcher in At
lanta! Urn, lid told him about the
fire Slxttrlnon, N. C. Atlanta is
390 miles by rail West of Clarkton.
The dispatcher in Atlanta tele
phoned a night operator at Pem
broke, N. C., 34 miles west of the
fire. The night operator there no
tified a fire department in Eliia
bethtown, 11 miles north of the
burning warehouse, and additional
apparatus was sent at once. It
took about 10 minues to complete
these calls.
Heavy fog, especially in the
This (hows the location on the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad of
U>e longest straight stretch o t
railroad track in the United
States ? 78.86 miles in North
Carolina between Wilmington
and Hamlet. Had it not been for
the slight bend of the track at
milepost 340.85, the continuing
section of 19.20 miles, which
also has no curve, would have
made the total distance 98.06
miles without a bend.
spring of the year, was sometimes
a bother to locomotive engineers
in the days of steam? they possibly
could get "lost" op the Ipng
Straight section of track because it
has no identifying curves and lit
tle or no dips or rises, and not too
many trestles. The average change
in elevation on the straight sec
tion is only six inches every 100
feet, hardly discernible with the
naked eye.
Learned by Sound
"What we had to do then," said
A. B. Edwards, of Hamlet, N. C.,
who began working on an engine
along this straight section of Sea
board track in the days of cab
bage-head woodburners, "was to
learn the sound of every aiding
switch along all that straight track,
and the sound of every trestle. 1
got so I could1 tell exactly where
I was by the noise the wheels
made going over a switch, and I
could have stopped on a chalk line
in a pea soup fog anywhere along
the whole length of that line at any
one given place."
Edwards worked on one locomo
tive that set nine miles of the
straight section of track on fire ooe
day, and then put it out without
help. The engineer on the lo
comotive directed that heavy resin
knots found at a turpentine still
near a wood-loading stop bfc thrown
into the firebox to make a bigger
fire in a faster time. j
The train had gone nine miles c
down the track before it was dis- a
covered that hot turpentine drip- \
pings were running through (he t
grates and out of the ash pan
down onto the ground, setting the
croesties on fire. As far back as
they could see, Edwards said, the
track was nothing but a long lane
of curling smoke in a chasm of
trees.
"We put the cars on a sidetrack,
turned the injector so the water
from the tender tank ran into the
ashpan and overflowed onto the
ground. Then we commenced back
ing up, putting out the fire like a
sure enough fire engine. It took
us half a day to get it all out be
cause we had to run back now and
then to a water tank down the line :
and fill up the tender tank. We
made a pretty good job of it, but
I must say when the section mas
ter found out what we'd done to
his track he got hotter than his
own roadbed had been We never
fired her any more with resin
Mots."
Built netore war
This long tangent of track was
originally a part of the Wilming
ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail
road Co., which had its principal
offices in Wilmington. Construc
tion commenced on New Year's
Day in 1857, and the length from
Navassa, a little place just across
the Cape Fear River from Wil
mington to Rockingham, which is
not far from Charlotte, was com
pleted on April Fool's Day in
1861, right in the face of the War
Between the States. The line was
quite an important piece of prop
erty during fhat war.
It) 1873, the Wilmington, Char
lotte and Rutherford ended a per
iod of receivership by being sold
to the Carolina Central Railway
Co., and this line in 1880 became
the Carolina Central Railroad Co.
In July of 1800 the line was ac
quired by the first organization
of the present Seaboard Air Line
Railroad Co.
Many people have wondered
about the slight bend in the
straight length of track that pre
vented It from being 98.08 miles
long without a curve or bend. Since
there were no lakes, big rivers or
hills* ? and the controlling grade
for the whole length is only one
per cent, or a rise or fall of one
foot in every 100 feet? curves were
unnecessary, and there seems no
logical explanation.
The little curve itself is only
enough to cause the track to devi
ate about 11 feet from the original
course in a bend S00 feet long. It
'might have been due to an infin
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Answers to Quiz
(Sec Q? mom. Page 4. Section i)
1. Civil War.
2. Southern women during the
Civil War laid flowers on the
gravei of both Southern sol
diers and Northerner* who
had died in the South.
S. Gen. John A. l.osan, com
mander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, sent
out orders thai May 30 of that
year (lfl68) should be set
aside for strewing flowers on
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tesimal error in cross-country cal
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is some railroad civil engineers
vould say, that "somebody forgot
he plumb bob thai day!"
northern slates but Southern
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ranging from April 28 to
June 3.
5. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
6. World War I.
7. No. Many civilian graves are
decorated too.
8. It was the date of the dis
charge of the last Union vol
unteer of the Civil War.
9. He places wreathes on the
Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier at Arlington National
Cemetery.
10. Half mast until noon.
The Great Republic, listed as the
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carry 6.000 tons of cargo and drew
24 feet of water.
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