270 THE RAILROADS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Guilford and Forsyth, to the thriving manufacturing 

 centre at Salem-Winston. Its length is 25 miles. 



The Oxford and Henderson Railroad is 13 

 miles long. It runs from Henderson, the rapidly 

 growing county seat of Vance, on the Raleigh and 

 Gaston Road, to Oxford, the prosperous county town 

 of Granville. 



The Piedmont Railroad, 49 miles, passes from 

 Danville, Va., through Caswell, Rockingham and 

 Guilford counties to Greensboro, where it makes con- 

 nection with the whole system of North Carolina 

 Roads. It is owned by the Richmond and Danville, 

 and is part of one of the great through routes from 

 north to south. 



The Petersburg Railroad, 63 miles long, passes 

 from Virginia through Northampton county, N. C, 

 to the noted railroad centre, Weldon, in Halifax 

 county, where it connects with the Raleigh and Gas- 

 ton and Wilmington and Weldon through routes. 



The Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line Railroad, 

 99 miles in length, passes from Raleigh, the State 

 Capital, through Wake, Chatham, Moore and Rich- 

 mond counties, to Hamlet, where its connection with 

 the Carolina Central (under the same management) 

 makes a through route east and south by Wilming- 

 ton and west and south by Charlotte. At Sanford, 

 Moore county, it crosses the Cape Fear and Yadkin 

 Valley Road, thus connecting with Fayetteville and 

 the river steamers on the Cape Fear. 



The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is 98 miles 

 long. It runs from Weldon through Halifax, War- 



