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Marion County Railway

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ6765144 ↗
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The Marion County Railway was a shortline railroad that operated in eastern South Carolina in the mid-1980s.

The line, acquired from Seaboard Systems in July 1984, ran a little more than six miles from Mullins, South Carolina, to Marion, South Carolina.

It operated until February 1985 and while it had not been abandoned as of a decade later, most of the track had been taken up.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. The account is most persuasive where Marion, County and Railway can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6765144. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marion County Railway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.