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Ever since the Santa Fe Railway develop the 2-10-2 wheel arrangement (hence the Railroad's namesake) in 1903, the Southern Railway (SOU) began placing a new order of their own 2-10-2s; the Ss class were built with 57 in (1,448 mm) driving wheels, duplex stokers, 71,000 lb (32.2 tonnes) of tractive effort, and an operating boiler pressure of 190 psi (1.31 MPa).
Southern Railway 722 is a class "Ks-1" 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works to run on the Murphy Branch, where it hauled freight trains between Asheville and Murphy, North Carolina for the Southern Railway (SOU).
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 1925, Southern Railway president Fairfax Harrison traveled to the United Kingdom, where he admired the country's London and North Eastern Railway's apple green passenger steam locomotives. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Harrison's trip had inspired the appearance of the second order of Ps-4s built in the summer of 1926 by ALCO's Richmond Works by having them ...
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The Southern Railway took a key role in expanding the 660 V DC third rail electrified network begun by the London & South Western Railway.As a result of this, and its smaller operating area, its steam locomotive stock was the smallest of the 'Big Four' companies.