Talk:South Carolina Railroad

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I challenge the name change from "S C Rail Road" to "S C Railroad". That is simply not the correct name. For example, please look at the 1873 fare ticket. Please provide the sources that support this change. Hughespj (talk) 10:38, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Especially in the early days, railroads do not seem to have stuck with one version of "Rail Road" vs. "Railroad". In this case, the actual name prescribed by law was "South-Carolina Rail-Road". But if you look at what contemporary sources use, it's usually "Railroad". --NE2 13:04, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. At the very least Rail Road or Rail-Road is the most predominate form used at the time. Please also refer to Derrick's "Centennial History of South Carolina Railroad" book. I don't think it is Wikipedia policy to alter an established article on the basis of at best doubtful and selective information, when the greatest likelihood is that it was correct to begin with. I think you should change it back the way it was. Hughespj (talk) 16:37, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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Suggested Article Merge
I'm going to suggest that the article "South Carolina Railroad" be merged into "South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company". The RR Co. article begins by saying that RR Co. was a "direct successor" to Canal & RR Co., suggesting that at no time would these have been separate entities. Furthermore, the RR Co. article discusses things such as the "incline plane at Aiken" which make no sense without the context set by the history of Canal & RR Co. It would make more sense to me to present this a one history, with it stated up front that a 1843 reorganization and acquisition resulted in a name change. I'm putting a copy of this suggestion on talk for the other article as well. -- Bdentremont (talk) 15:36, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Sounds reasonable to me. Hughespj (talk) 11:30, 10 March 2010 (UTC)