The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, chartered on…
December 1835 CE
It is North Carolina's second railroad (the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad will open one month earlier).
The length is one hundred miles (one hundred and sixty kilometers) and built with four footeight inch (1,422 mm) gauge.
The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad will merge with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1900, eventually becoming part of CSX Transportation.
The Raleigh and Gaston's tracks now make up part of CSX's S Line as the Norlina Subdivision of CSX's Florence Division.