CHARLOTTE – Wilmington developer Gene Merritt and another Wilmington entrepreneur, Steve Unger, have embarked on a campaign to restore the passenger rail from Wilmington to Raleigh.
Merritt, who helped in the successful effort to extend Interstate 40 in the 1980s and ’90s, and Unger have formed an organization called Eastern Carolina Rail and seeking nonprofit status for it.
[“It’s not going to be an overnight thing,” Merritt told Wilmington Biz. “It’s going to take some time, but it’s something we feel like would be fantastic, to have passenger rail service from here to Raleigh.”]
