Norfolk Southern Railway (1942–1982)
The Norfolk Southern Railway 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.
A Norfolk Southern work train west of Mackeys, North Carolina in 1968.
Norfolk Southern Railroad passenger train crosses the Albemarle Sound trestle in 1918.
The Southern Railway was a class 1 railroad based in the Southern United States between 1894 and 1982, when it merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) to form the Norfolk Southern Railway. The railroad was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894.
A Southern Railway train in 1969
The Southern Railway Building in Washington, D.C., formerly located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street NW in the early 1900s
A postcard showing the Tennessean in its 1940s livery, with an EMD E6A locomotive on the point