High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 1848 the North Carolina legislature authorized a railroad that would connect the eastern part of the state with the piedmont. NC Senate President Calvin Graves cast the deciding vote, ensuring the railroad would be built, but ending his political career because it would not pass through his district. In 1851 Senator Graves was given the honor of lifting the first shovel of dirt as construction of the railroad began in Greensboro. By 1856 the first train traveled along the entire route, from Goldsboro to Charlotte. In 1858 the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad was completed, opening 96 miles (154 km) of rail between Goldsboro and the Beaufort harbor. Efforts to consolidate the Atlantic and North Carolina with the NCRR were initiated in 1866, but it would take until 1989 to complete the merger and consolidate the railroad from Morehead City to Charlotte.

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