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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.
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 ...
Alabama Great Southern Railroad; Alton and Southern Railway, Illinois; Arkansas Southern Railroad, part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Dennis William "Bill" Brosnan Jr. (April 14, 1903 – June 14, 1985) was a president of Southern Railway in the US, a railroad that later merged with Norfolk and Western Railroad to form Norfolk Southern Railway. [1] [2] Born in 1903 in Albany, Georgia, Brosnan was the son of the town's fire chief. In 1923, he took a job as an engineer with the ...
35027 Port Line was one of a batch of ten SR Merchant Navy class steam locomotives built by the Southern Region of British Railways between 1948 and 1949. Completed at Eastleigh Works in December 1948, it was named on 24 April 1950 in Southampton Docks. Port Line was shedded at Bournemouth with others of the class such as Canadian Pacific.
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 Aiken-Augusta Special was a named night train of the Southern Railway between New York City and Augusta, Georgia.Different from other long distance Southern Railway lines which tended to briefly go through the northwestern edge of South Carolina, this route went through the interior of the state.
Southern Railway 1380 was a streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive built in 1923 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, for the Southern Railway (SOU) as a member of the Ps-4 class, which was based on the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) Heavy Pacific design with some minor differences.