Short-Liner Survives In New Era on HPT&D Railroad
Enterprise story profiles the High Point Thomasville and Denton Railroad known as the zero mile post starting point for a 34 mile network serving 75 industries. Leadership by Capt Milton Jones O Arthur Kirkman Sr and Jr includes dieselization and efforts to attract plants along the line amid postwar competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Hawkins
Jacobs Street
High Point
Thomasville
Denton
High Rock
Winston-Salem
Enter
Prise
Milton Jones
Arthur Kirkman Sr
Arthur Kirkman Jr
Hpt&d
Kirkman
Norfolk and Western
Atlantic
High Point Rail Rivalry Shaped Local Industrial Growth
The article traces the rise of the Winston Salem Southbound with its 1904 start as the Thomasville and Glen Anna line and its evolution into a key inter urban carrier. It details extensions to High Rock and High Point by 1914, bond funding, and the streetcar linked industry boom, including the long serving electric locomotive nicknamed The Coffee Grinder, before the Yadkin Railroad’s bankruptcy in 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tion
Rai
High Rock
Winston-Salem
Point
Carolina, Glen Anna and Pee Dee
Piedmont Railroad
Carolina and Yadkin River
Winston- Salem
Winston - Salem
Wadesboro
High Point
Sie Tae
Uetah
Main
Green
English
Russell
Hamilton
Competi- Yadkin
Route Through High Point Tracks Show Railroad’s Industrial Heart
A High Point and Thomasville rail segment narrates the HPT & D line history from 1905 wood burner origins to today’s diesel freight runs. Engineers Dutton and Garner describe yards, shops, the Y spur, and the Denton leg, with 130 road segments and 17.9 miles of sidings along Guilford Davidson and Randolph counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tendent L. B. Dutton
Tryon Street
Dutton
Hpt&d
Southern Railroad
High Point
Jacobs Street
W. Green Drive
Russell Street
High Rock
J. A. Garner
S. R. Nelson
H. G. Grubb
Thomasville
HPT &D
WSSB
Garner
Randolph Street
Forest Hills
Toonerville
Davidson County
Denton
Cid Hill
Hannersville
Gordontown
Cid
Hughes Siding
Emmons
Shale Brick
L. M. Younts
Salisbury Street
Ae Ee
Lick Creek
Tinkering Hobby Trends In Postwar High Point Life
An early piece notes men rushing home to hobbies as status symbols after work. It satirizes hobby snobbery while detailing practical gear for tinkering including hammers screwdrivers and pliers and hints at a culture shift toward hands on home projects.
A Tinker’s Tale of Tools and a Humble Hobby
The narrator recalls starting a hobby in a basement with two old radios and a garage pegboard. He warns against power tools hazards after a thumb injury and notes electric drills and tin kerers can be noisy yet safer. He laments ruined supplies and mocks non hobbyists who do not understand such pursuits.
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High Point Enterprise
H.p.t.&d
Guilford
Randolph
Davidson Counties
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