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Aiken Railway. Launched in 2012, The Aiken Railway ( reporting mark AIKR) is a short line railroad operating 19 miles of track leased from Norfolk Southern in southwestern South Carolina, in the United States. The leased track consists of 12.45 miles between Warrenville and Oakwood, and 6.45 miles between Aiken and North Aiken. [1]
The William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures make up a National Historic Landmark District in Charleston, South Carolina, that contains structures of South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company and the home of the company's founder, William Aiken. These structures make up one of the largest collection of surviving pre- Civil War ...
William Aiken (1779 – May 5, 1831), or William Aiken, Sr., was the founder and president of the pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company. [1] Born in County Antrim, Ireland, he immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina at age 10. He was raised Presbyterian. He married Henrietta Watt in 1801.
Technical. Track gauge. 5 ft ( 1,524 mm) The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company was a railroad in South Carolina that operated independently from 1830 to 1844. One of the first railroads in North America to be chartered and constructed, it provided the first steam-powered, scheduled passenger train service in the United States.
It was the home of William Aiken, Jr., a governor of South Carolina, and before that the home of his father, the owner of South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, William Aiken. [5] Gov. William Aiken House. Mrs. Frances Dill Rhett, whose husband was a direct descendant of Gov. William Rhett, donated the house to the Charleston Museum in 1975 ...
In 1879, the charter of the Edgefield Branch Railroad was amended to change the line's name to the Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad Company. The Edgefield Branch Railroad was incorporated to build a railroad line between Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, to Trenton, South Carolina, where it could connect with the Charlotte, Columbia ...
2nd. Website. www .aikencountysc .gov. Aiken County ( / ˈeɪkən /) is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 168,808. [1] Its county seat and largest community is Aiken. [2] Aiken County is a part of the Augusta - Richmond County, GA -SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 23.6 mi (38.0 km) The Augusta–Aiken Railway and Electric Corporation was an electric interurban railroad that operated between Augusta, Georgia and Aiken, South Carolina. Once completed in 1902 the railroad remained in operation until it was abandoned in 1929.