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The TowneBank Building (formerly the Norfolk Southern Tower) is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Norfolk, Virginia, United States.The building was notable as being the corporate headquarters of one of the United States' five Class I railroads, Norfolk Southern, until the relocation of their headquarters to Atlanta, GA in 2021. [1]
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 building served as the executive headquarters for the Southern Railway until 1982, when the company merged with the Roanoke, Virginia-based Norfolk and Western Railway. [2] The newly-formed Norfolk Southern Railway moved its headquarters to Norfolk, Virginia and moved out of the Washington, D.C. offices. [2]
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The line from Lamberts Point to Canal Drive, Norfolk was separated from the Norfolk District and became a new rail line called Norfolk Terminal. The Norfolk District is part of the Lamberts Point to Roanoke rail corridor. At one time the line's original name was restored as a timetable name and the line was grouped with the Norfolk Terminal in ...
Norfolk Terminal Station was a railroad union station located in Norfolk, Virginia, which served passenger trains and provided offices for the Norfolk and Western Railway, the original Norfolk Southern Railway (a regional carrier in Virginia and North Carolina which became part of and later lent its name to the much larger company known as Norfolk Southern in the 1980s) and the Virginian Railway.
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