High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad

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High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad
Overview
Reporting markHPTD
LocaleNorth Carolina
Dates of operation1923–
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The High Point, Thomasville, and Denton Railroad (Reporting mark HPTD) was a 20-mile short-line railroad owned by the jointly CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway owned Winston-Salem Southbound Railway (WSS). The Winston-Salem Southbound Railway, filed a request April 13, 2010, to merge the High Point, Thomasville, and Denton Railroad into the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. The Surface Transportation Board published notice of this transaction April 16, 2010 to be effective May 1.[1]

Norfolk Southern has a small yard in High Point at the beginning of the line.

Traffic[edit]

Commodities carried by the line are grain, sand, gravel, stone, forest products, paper products, coal, coke, cement, clay, fertilizer, aluminum, chemicals, iron, and steel.

Motive power[edit]

At the present time, locomotives are provided by CSX or Norfolk Southern.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Company-Corporate Family Transaction Exemption-High Point, Thomasville & Denton Railroad Company". Federal Register. 75: 20033–20034. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 2014-10-27.

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