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About South Carolina Railroad Museum, Inc
The South Carolina Railroad Museum, Inc. is located in Winnsboro, South Carolina and was established in 1973 by a group of dedicated railroad enthusiasts from Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina. Their mission was to preserve and interpret railroading in South Carolina for fu
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History
The South Carolina Railroad Museum was established in 1973 by railroad enthusiasts from Columbia and Charleston with a mission of preserving and interpreting railroading in the state, and it has since been designated South Carolina's official railroad museum. Its home railroad is the former Rockton and Rion Railway, a Class III short line in Fairfield County that hauled outbound sand and gravel from Anderson Quarry to a Southern Railway connection at Rockton until operations ceased on August 21, 1981. After abandonment was approved, the railroad's owner, Martin Marietta Materials, donated the entire twelve-mile right-of-way to the museum in October 1983. The museum set about rebuilding the route under a new name, the Rockton, Rion and Western Railroad, and today it owns the full right-of-way and runs trains over roughly five miles of the line at Winnsboro.
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