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Possible Southern Railway link to coal fields via Stumphouse tunnel
The article discusses a prospective Southern Railway route from Walhalla through Stumphouse mountain to Knoxville and into the coal fields, linking Piedmont South Carolina to western lines. Col. A. B. Andrews would oversee construction, with financing and era of better times needed to proceed, after past railroad downturns and anti-railroad sentiment.
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Columbia
Norfolk & Western
Atlantic Coast Line
Carolina Seaboard
Charleston
Southern Railway
Tidewater
Piedmont
South Carolina
Blue Ridge
Walhalla
Stumphouse Mountain
Knoxville
Col
A. B. Andrews
Raleigh
The
Southern
Blue Ridge Mountains
Col. Andrews
McCaw