Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad

Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company was built by divisions, largely, if not wholly, under contract, at various times prior to the summer of 1858.

A First Sinking Fund Mortgage dated February 29, 1868, in the amount of $1.5 million was placed on the property in order to finance the rehabilitation of the line.

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) authorized Norfolk Southern Railroad's (of 1910) abandonment of operations of the Atlantic and North Carolina.

[9] Atlantic and East Carolina had organized the Cherry Point Railroad Company for the purpose of constructing the spur.

[18] That portion of line extends between mileposts EC-0.0+/- and EC-94.7+/-, a distance of approximately 94.7 miles (152.4 km) in Carteret, Craven, Jones, Lenoir, and Wayne Counties.

The purpose of the trackage rights was to allow Norfolk Southern Railway and Atlantic and East Carolina Railway to continue as the providers of local and overhead freight service on the respective North Carolina Railroad Company lines, as they had previously done under the expired leases.