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Norfolk Southern's predecessor railroads date to the early 19th century. The South Carolina Canal & Rail Road was the SOU's earliest predecessor line. Chartered in 1827, the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company became the first to offer regularly scheduled passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston in 1830. [18]
The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to lines inherited from predecessor railroads, Norfolk and Western, and the Southern Railway, it acquired many lines as part of the split of the Conrail system in 1999. [1]
The Columbus and Xenia Railroad became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, while the rest became New York Central Railroad lines. The two companies merged to form Penn Central Transportation in 1968 and were taken over by Conrail in 1976. What was then known as the Cincinnati Line [6] was assigned to Norfolk Southern in the 1999 breakup ...
The Sandusky and Columbus Short Line Railway opened the line in 1893, [1] and it became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system through leases and mergers. In 1964, the Norfolk and Western Railway merged the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate) and leased the Wabash Railroad and Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway; they bought the Columbus-Sandusky line from the PRR in ...
The New Castle District is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of Ohio and Indiana.The line runs from Evendale northwest and north to Fort Wayne, Indiana along former Pennsylvania Railroad and New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate) lines.
In June 2010, NS announced that it had reached an agreement with Ohio to extend a leg of the Heartland Corridor southwesterly from Columbus to Cincinnati, which is located on the Ohio River near the border where Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana converge. The $6.1 million cost will be funded with federal economic stimulus funds and the Ohio-Kentucky ...
On June 23, 1997, CSX and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) filed a joint application with the Surface Transportation Board for authority to purchase, divide, and operate the assets of the 11,000-mile (18,000 km) Conrail, which had been created in 1976 by bringing together several ailing Northeastern railway systems into a government-owned ...
Indiana and Chicago Railway: C&EI: 1880 1881 Chicago and Great Southern Railway: Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway: B&O: 1894 1902 Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railway: Indiana Eastern Railroad and Transportation Company: 1979 1984 Indiana Midland Railway: Indiana Harbor Railroad: NYC: 1901 1906 Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad