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  2. Southern Railway (U.S.) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines - Wikipedia

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    The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to lines inherited from predecessor railroads, Norfolk and Western, and the Southern Railway, it acquired many lines as part of the split of the Conrail system in 1999. [1]

  4. Norfolk Southern Railway - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. Murphy Branch - Wikipedia

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    A former Southern Railway depot in Bryson City, North Carolina, now serving as the main headquarter of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSMR). The Murphy Branch is a branch line operated by the Western North Carolina Railroad, later the Richmond and Danville, Southern Railway, the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and today the Blue Ridge Southern Railroad.

  6. List of Connecticut railroads - Wikipedia

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    Guilford Rail System: Primarily a heritage railroad, but also provides freight service between Waterbury and Torrington. Railroad Museum of New England [1] New England Central Railroad: NECR 1995 Central Vermont Railway: Operates a main line between New London and the Massachusetts state line, via Willimantic. Genesee & Wyoming [1] Pan Am ...

  7. Alabama Southern Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Alabama Southern Railroad (reporting mark ABS) is a class III railroad that operates in the southern United States. The ABS is one of several short line railroads owned by Watco. The railroad operates an 85-mile (137 km) line leased from the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). It began operating in 2005. [1]

  8. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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    The present-day Cincinnati Southern Railway runs 337 miles (542 km) from Cincinnati to Chattanooga. [3] It is still owned by the City of Cincinnati and is leased to the CNO&TP under a long-term lease; it is the only such long-distance railway owned by a municipality in the United States.

  9. Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833, and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the south shore of Lake Erie (in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio) and across northern Indiana.