Conway Coast and Western Railroad

The Conway Coast and Western Railroad was the name from 1904 of a South Carolina railroad first chartered by the state General Assembly in 1899 as the Conway Seashore Railroad. The line was built by the sons of the Conway businessman Franklin Burroughs, founder of the Burroughs and Collins Company, and began operating in 1900, running from Conway southeast to Myrtle Beach. The carrier took the Conway Coast and Western name in 1904. In 1912 it was bought by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which made it part of its Myrtle Beach Branch and ran freight and passenger service to the resort. Ownership then passed through the Seaboard Coast Line and CSX, and the line is today owned by the R.J. Corman Railroad Group, which restored freight service as far as Pine Island in 2015; the track into Myrtle Beach itself has been inactive since 2011 because the drawbridge over the Intracoastal Waterway is inoperable.