Editing Railroad history (section)

==== Richmond and Danville Railroad ====

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_and_Danville_Railroad
** “Greer’s” and “Greers” appears on multiple R&D maps in the late 1800s. See: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3706p.rr005450/
** 60% of stock purchased by the Southern Railway Security Company in 1871.
** In 1880, control of the R&D was acquired by William P. Clyde and interests that controlled the Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Rail Road Company.
** In or about 1886, the Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company acquired a majority of R&D Company stock.
** '''Piedmont Air-Line''' was a set of passenger routes in the Richmond and Danville Railroad. According to a Sept. 1885 timetable in the Stanford archive, these routes passed through but did not stop in Greer.
** In '''1882''', the R&D, along with the North Carolina Railroad, Northwestern North Carolina Railroad, Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, '''Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Railway''' and the Columbia and Greenville Railroad lines were being operated as the '''Piedmont Air-Line System''' advertised as the shortest line between New York, New Orleans and Texas.