Before Helene, the towns and valleys of Western North Carolina echoed with the rumble and screech of trains that carried freight through the mountains and stopped at factories, mines and lumber ...
The N.C. Department of Transportation has received a $1 billion federal grant to begin building the high-speed passenger train line that will eventually run between Raleigh and Richmond, Virginia.
UPDATE: As of 9 p.m., the Town of Prosperity announced on social media that all power has been restored, though residents were still reporting sporadic outages. PROSPERITY, S.C. -- The aftermath ...