title: High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad
text: # High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad
  
  The High Point, Thomasville, and Denton Railroad (Reporting mark HPTD) was a 20-mile short-line railroad owned by the jointly CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway owned Winston-Salem Southbound Railway (WSS). The Winston-Salem Southbound Railway, filed a request April 13, 2010, to merge the High Point, Thomasville, and Denton Railroad into the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. The Surface Transportation Board published notice of this transaction April 16, 2010 to be effective May 1.
  
  Norfolk Southern has a small yard in High Point at the beginning of the line.
  
  ## Traffic
  
  Commodities carried by the line are grain, sand, gravel, stone, forest products, paper products, coal, coke, cement, clay, fertilizer, aluminum, chemicals, iron, and steel.
  
  ## Motive power
  
  At the present time, locomotives are provided by CSX or Norfolk Southern.
  
  