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On May 17, 2007, Birmingham Southern Railroad was awarded a Gold E. H. Harriman Award in the S&T Group for the railroad's 2006 safety record. [1] On December 2, 2011, Watco announced plans to purchase the Birmingham Southern. [2] The railroad was subsequently renamed Birmingham Terminal Railway; operations under the new name began on February 1 ...
Birmingham Southern Railroad: Jefferson Warrior Railroad: 1985 2009 Alabama Warrior Railway: Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad: SLSF: 1887 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kansas City Southern Railway: KCS 1994 2005 Alabama Southern Railroad: Long Branch Coal Railroad: L&N: 1901 1957 Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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]
St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad: SLSF: 1886 1928 St. Louis – San Francisco Railway: Kingsport Southern Railway: ACL/ L&N: 1906 1906 South and Western Railroad: Knoxville and Augusta Railroad: SOU: 1878 1890 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway: Knoxville Belt Railroad: SOU: 1887 1898 ...
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
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 ...
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]