Royal Palm (train)
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The Royal Palm was a named train of the Southern Railway that ran from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Jacksonville, Florida, and then on the Florida East Coast Railway's East Coast Champion to Miami, Florida. The train was discontinued in 1970.
Postcard depiction of the New Royal Palm
The Royal Palm at Danville, KY station on April 11, 1963.
Southern Railway (U.S.)
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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