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Title
Atlantic
Coast
Line
Railroad
.
Subject
Atlantic
Coast
Line
Railroad
,
Train
Yard
Description
The
railroad's
freight
rail
yards
are
depicted
in this
photo
.
Since
the
mid-nineteenth
century
,
Wilmington
had been a
railroad
town
,
beginning
with the
Wilmington
&
Weldon
Railroad
,
which
was
organized
in
1838
, and
reportedly
was at
one
time
, the
longest
railroad
in the
world
.
Some
years
later
, that
railroad
was
absorbed
into the
Atlantic
Coastline
System
. In
1880
before
the
merger
, the
Wilmington
&
Weldon
began
to
build
their
offices
in
Wilmington
,
beginning
with the
construction
of a
three-story
brick
building
on the
northwest
corner
of
Red
Cross
and
North
Front
streets
. The
ACL
took
over
the
older
railroad's
structures
. In
1900
, they
purchased
land
adjoining
the
western
side
of
Front
Street
. In
time
,
four
buildings
were
located
on this
site
,
which
housed
the
general
offices
of the
railroad
. On
December
10
,
1955
, "
Black
Thursday
" the
Board
of
Directors
announced
that the
general
offices
would be
located
to
another
city
. In
time
,
it
was
learned
that
Jacksonville
,
FL
, would be their
new
home
. The
summer
of
1960
saw
the
move
completed
.
Over
thirteen
hundred
employees
were
transferred
and the
city
lost
a
payroll
of
about
$8,000,000.00
, what was then the
largest
payroll
in
Wilmington
.
Source
Louis T. Moore Collection 287
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