Portsmouth | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | Pennsylvania Railroad | Union Pacific Railroad | Underground Railroad | Roanoke, Virginia | Portsmouth F.C. | New York Central Railroad | Portsmouth, New Hampshire | Roanoke | Alaska Railroad | Erie Railroad | Central Pacific Railroad | Portsmouth, Ohio | Illinois Central Railroad | First Transcontinental Railroad | Roanoke Island | Lehigh Valley Railroad | Roanoke River | Portsmouth Abbey School | Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad | Grand Funk Railroad | Portsmouth, Virginia | HMNB Portsmouth | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad | Wabash Railroad | University of Portsmouth | Railroad switch | Portsmouth International Port | Portsmouth Cathedral |
The complex corporate history of SAL began on March 8, 1832, when its earliest predecessor, the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad was chartered by the legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina to build a railroad from Portsmouth, Virginia to the Roanoke River port of Weldon, North Carolina, shortcutting a long, three-sided water route.
The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad was organized in 1833 (as the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad) to extend from the area of the rapids of the Roanoke River at its fall line near Weldon, North Carolina to Portsmouth, Virginia, across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk on the harbor of Hampton Roads.