NS train #94, eastbound leaving Greenwood, headed for Silverstreet. The track going to the left is new connection built to the old G&F, going downtown to meet the CSX.

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Michael Welborn	General	Why the effort to build the connector via the old G&F only to not use it much if any. Michael..	1/23/2016 4:41:44 AM

Robyn Watkins	General	During the mid-1970s, both the then-Southern and Seaboard Coast Line had reached an agreement to abandon several parallel light-density routes in both North and South Carolina. This agreement, called “The Carolina Plan”, would allow both railroads to save money on maintaining light density routes that went to the same area, but did not have enough online traffic to continue to matain their own route. One such area was the Southern and SCL (Ex-Piedmont & Northern) route from Greenwood to Williamston, with parallel branchlines from Belton to Anderson. Those lines were practical within sight within one another! So, in exchange for SCL to allow SOU to operate on trackage rights on the ex-P&N, SOU agreed to allow SCL rights on their line from Belton to Anderson (In all fairness, SOU’s former Blue Ridge RR to Anderson was better than the ex-P&N route as there was some tight curves and street running to contend to on that line.)	7/31/2018 1:12:09 AM

Robyn Watkins	General	(Cont:) Also, the city of Greenwood had wanted to get rid of Southern’s tracks through downtown. Earlier (around 1973) they had managed to get rid of the former Charleston & Western Carolina trackage than ran parallel to the SOU route (it was rerouted onto the ex-SAL Hamlet, NC.-Atlanta mainline by new connections at Maxwell Yard on the west side and Aspen Heights on the east side of town. Southern’s line was re-routed over a new line at South Greenwood to the former Georgia & Florida line near Scotch Crossing Rd. From there it followed the former G&F to near Maxwell Yard where it crossed the SAL line at grade to the former P&N. Soooo, what happened? The Norfolk Southern and CSX mergers of the early 80s (along with the changing traffic patterns that it brought with it), and a dwindling online traffic base, caused the former P&N line to be abandoned from Honea Path south to Greenwood. By then, Norfolk Southern gave up the ex-P&N trackage rights.	7/31/2018 2:38:21 AM

NS train #94, eastbound leaving Greenwood, headed for Silverstreet. The track going to the left is new connection built to the old G&F, going downtown to meet the CSX.
Date: 11/14/1986	Location: Greenwood, SC	Views: 270	Collection Of: Jim Owens
			Author: Jim Owens

Picture Categories: Action		This picture is part of album: 1986 Greenwood to Newberry, on the C&G

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