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This is a route-map template for the Southerner, a United States railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Southerner was one of two new streamliners put into operation by the Southern Railway in 1941, the other being the Tennessean. The new train made its first run on March 31, 1941, using new equipment delivered by Pullman-Standard. [1] The Pennsylvania Railroad handled the train between New York and Washington, D.C.
Ian Allan Publishing was an English publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books. [1] It was founded by Ian Allan.. In 1942, Ian Allan, then working in the public relations department for the Southern Railway at Waterloo station, decided he could deal with many of the requests he received about rolling stock by collecting the information into a book. [2]
The Carolina Special was a passenger train operated by the Southern Railway between Cincinnati, Ohio and the Carolinas.It operated from 1911 to 1968. It was the last passenger train to use the route of the Charleston and Hamburg Railroad, which, as the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, began operation in December 1830, as one of the oldest railroads in the United States, [1] and, by ...
When the Richmond and Danville were re-organized as the Southern Railway In 1894, the Chester and Lenoir operated on its own for a short while. By 1896, it went into receivership, and the following year was re-organized as the Carolina & North-Western Railway. [2] The Carolina & North-Western was absorbed into the Southern Railway around 1940.
The Skyland Special was a long distance named night train of the Southern Railway from Asheville, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, USA.Apart from the Southern's trains originating in Cincinnati, the Skyland Special was distinctive as an all-Southern Railway operation (without the co-operation of another rail carrier) going directly to Florida.
On August 6, 2005, the City of Charleston lent it to the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), the original SCRR line's current operator, for five years. After refurbishment at their shops in Chattanooga, NS brought the replica to New York City for display on December 12, 2005, outside the New York Stock Exchange Building in a ceremony commemorating ...
Harry Ashby DeButts (October 13, 1895 – August 27, 1983) [1] was a president of Southern Railway in the United States.He was succeeded by D. William Brosnan in 1962.. deButts graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1916 and joined Southern Railway that year.