Carolina Coastal Railway

According to its current website, the railroad spans 179 track miles and operates sixteen locomotives.

In 2006, CLNA began to serve a former NS branch between Whitney and Badin where Alcoa previously operated a large aluminum plant.

On March 25, 2007, CLNA entered into a lease agreement with NS for the Plymouth-Raleigh route, 147 miles of the former mainline of the original Norfolk Southern.

[2] In 2010, CLNA began providing contract switching services in Kinston, North Carolina.

The CLNA also purchased a line between Rocky Mount and Spring Hope previously known as the Nash County Railroad, and began operating a former NS branch between Blacksburg, South Carolina and Kings Creek, South Carolina.

A four-engine consist of the Carolina Coastal Railway (CLNA) hauls 30 cars of freight across the Neuse River on the way to Raleigh, NC from Wilson, NC.