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3.3 Diesel locomotives acquired before 1982 merger in Norfolk Southern. 4 References. ... Former Virginian Railway locomotives (acquired 1959) EL-3A: 1-D-1: 100ABC to ...
The Norfolk Southern Railway (reporting mark NS) was the final name of a railroad that ran from Norfolk, Virginia, southwest and west to Charlotte, North Carolina.It was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1974, which merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1982 to form the current Norfolk Southern Railway.
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Norfolk and Western Railway; Tennessee Southern; Indiana Boxcar Corporation; Keystone Cooperative; 1987 Unknown Unknown [8] Norfolk and Western 686 February 1959 Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GP9 Norfolk and Western Railway; Norfolk Southern Railway; Hampton and Branchville Railroad - Operational Railroad Museum of New England in Thomaston ...
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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 Great Dismal Swamp train derailment occurred on the afternoon of May 18, 1986, when a special Norfolk Southern employee passenger train derailed at the Great Dismal Swamp near Suffolk, Virginia. The accident injured 177 passengers; 18 were seriously injured and need to be airlifted to nearby hospitals in Norfolk, Virginia.
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.