The Ware Shoals Railroad was a shortline connecting the town of Ware Shoals, South Carolina, to the Southern Railway and Piedmont and Northern Railway (later Seaboard Coast Line) at Shoals Junction, South Carolina, a distance of .

History

The train carried goods to and from the

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located in Ware Shoals, South Carolina, but its main use was the transportation of coal. The railroad was built in 1905 by the Southern Railway, which supplied locomotives to operate the line with during the steam era. By the late 1950s, the railroad dieselized with a single ex-Southern General Electric 44-ton locomotive, numbered 1955. The railroad ceased operations in 1985 when the

begin to curtail operations. Trackage was pulled up in 1987. Wstrain

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ware Shoals Railroad Transportation in Abbeville County, South Carolina Defunct South Carolina railroads 1905 establishments in South Carolina 1985 disestablishments in South Carolina