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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 ...
Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Southern Railway (U.S.)" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Florida East Coast discontinued its last passenger service in 1968, leaving the FEC ineligible to join Amtrak. Passenger services resumed under the purview of privately-owned Brightline in 2018. The Kansas City Southern Railway, having discontinued its Southern Belle in 1969, had no remaining passenger service despite its size. [17]
Pages in category "Named passenger trains of the Southern Railway" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Train Name Railroad Train Endpoints in a typical [year] Operated Sacramento: Southern Pacific: Los Angeles, California–Sacramento, California [1922] 1921–1924 Sacramento Daylight: Southern Pacific: Los Angeles, California–Sacramento, California [1953] 1946–1971 Safety Express: Chessie System 1980–1981 Sailor: Pennsylvania Railroad
Like most local-service airlines, Southern flew only Douglas DC-3s for the first few years. In 1961, they began adding 22 40-passenger, secondhand Martin 4-0-4s acquired from Eastern Air Lines, [4] newer aircraft that were pressurised and had a rear ventral stairway. The last scheduled DC-3 flight was in 1967.
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 ...
In 1925, Southern Railway president Fairfax Harrison traveled to the United Kingdom, where he admired the country's London and North Eastern Railway's apple green passenger steam locomotives. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Harrison's trip had inspired the appearance of the second order of Ps-4s built in the summer of 1926 by ALCO's Richmond Works by having them ...