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January 17 – United States – An Atlantic Coast Line passenger train and a Southern Railway freight train collided in the small community of Fleming, Georgia. [44] 2 people (the train's engineer and fireman) died and 85 others were injured. The cause of the crash, according to the Interstate Commerce Commission, was "excessive speed". [45]
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 ...
Until the 1950s and 1960s the station served several named trains. In contrast to the New York—Florida trajectories of the Amtrak trains today passing through Columbia, the trains offered service in different directions as well. Southern Railway: [5] Aiken-Augusta Special: Aiken, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia-- New York City
Southern Railway 4501 is a preserved Ms class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive. Built in October 1911 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , No. 4501 was the first of its wheel arrangement type for the Southern Railway (SOU) .
1950–1957 Shreveport Express: Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Dallas, Texas–Shreveport, Louisiana [1903] 1903–1910 Shreveporter: Louisiana and Arkansas, Missouri Pacific Railroad; Kansas City Southern Railway from around 1940 Hope, Arkansas–Shreveport, Louisiana [1948] 1928–1961 Silent Knight: Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
In 1949, an order for twelve EMD E7s was delivered to Southern Railway for use on its passenger trains. On December 15, 1949, the New York Central, Southern and Florida East Coast began operation of the streamlined New Royal Palm winter-only train that replaced the Florida Sunbeam , which had run down Southern's (GS&F) Palatka branch to Hampton ...
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 ...
Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, Southern Railway used the Spencer Shops as its main repair facility for diesel locomotives on eastern lines operating in the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia. [7] The shops ceased working on steam engines in 1953, when the railway company phased them out. [5]