Train tracking: The lost Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern Railroad

Cape Fear Unearthed Podcast by Adam Fish

Mar 24, 202222:25Government & Organizations

We talk with Mark W. Koenig, the former director of the Wilmington Railroad Museum. In January, his first book, "The Wilmington, Brunswick and Southern Railroad," was published by Arcadia Publishing and The History Press...

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