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On May 17, 1942, Elmer W. Henderson, an African-American passenger, was travelling first-class on the Southern Railway from Washington to Atlanta en route to Birmingham in the course of his duties as an employee of the United States.
Voters on Tuesday will decide whether to sell the city-owned Cincinnati Southern Railway to Norfolk Southern for $1.6 billion. • Proponents of the sale say the city needs the extra money to ...
As a result, CNO&TP agreed to long leases with rising rates: It paid $25.2 million to Cincinnati Southern over its first 25-year contract. It agreed to pay a total of $67 million between 1902 and ...
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 ...
In 1949, an order for twelve EMD E7s was delivered to Southern Railway for use on its passenger trains. On December 15, 1949, the New York Central, Southern and Florida East Coast began operation of the streamlined New Royal Palm winter-only train that replaced the Florida Sunbeam , which had run down Southern's (GS&F) Palatka branch to Hampton ...
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]
A number of different numbering and classification schemes were used for the locomotives owned by the Southern Railway (SR) and its constituent companies. This page explains the principal systems that were used. For information about individual classes and locomotives, see: Locomotives of the Southern Railway
In 1970, the Southern Railway combined the Crescent with the Southerner to form the Southern Crescent. [2] The merged train moved to the Birmingham route, allowing the train to run solely on Southern's right-of-way between New Orleans and Washington. This train became Amtrak's Crescent on February 1, 1979.