[1] It changed its name to the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad in 1871, and was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in February 1878.

[3] The carrier's goal was to build a line from Raleigh to Augusta, Georgia, through Columbia, South Carolina.

However, it never progressed past the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, where it met the Palmetto Railroad.

[4] Later, the Raleigh and Gaston, and Raleigh and Augusta both fell on hard times during the Panic of 1873, and John M. Robinson, president of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, acquired financial control of both carriers, becoming president of all three railroads in 1875.

[7] In 1980, the Seaboard Coast Line's parent company merged with the Chessie System, creating the CSX Corporation.