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The Southern Railway Building in Washington, D.C., formerly located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street NW in the early 1900s An 1895 system map A 1921 system map. The pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, Southern's earliest predecessor line and one of the first railroads in the United States, was chartered on December 19, 1827, and ran the nation's first regularly ...
Alabama Great Southern Railroad; Alton and Southern Railway, Illinois; Arkansas Southern Railroad, part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The present-day Cincinnati Southern Railway runs 337 miles (542 km) from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. [3] It is still owned by the City of Cincinnati and is leased to the CNO&TP under a long-term lease; it is the only such long-distance railway owned by a municipality in the United States.
Rents rise from $1 million to at least $20 million a year. Today, opponents of the city’s call to sell Cincinnati Southern are concerned proceeds of the sale won’t be managed well.Ohio ...
Southern Railway was created on 14 April 1951 by merging three state railways, namely, the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway Company, and the Mysore State Railway and became the first railway zone created in newly formed India. Southern Railway maintains about 5,081 km (3,157 mi) of railway lines and operates 727 ...
The Alabama Southern Railroad (reporting mark ABS) is a class III railroad that operates in the southern United States. The ABS is one of several short line railroads owned by Watco. The railroad operates an 85-mile (137 km) line leased from the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). It began operating in 2005. [1]
The Southern Railway introduced the train on March 12, 1899, and it was known as the crack train of the route until the introduction of the Crescent in 1925. [1] [2]A spur branch served Birmingham, but this was eliminated by 1964. [3]
Southern Railway 1401 is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive built in July 1926 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Richmond, Virginia, for the Southern Railway (SOU) as a member of the Ps-4 class, which was based on the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) Heavy Pacific design with some minor differences.