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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 ...
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]
Iowa Southern Railroad: ISR 1984 1989 Council Bluffs and Ottumwa Railway: Iowa Southern Railroad: CB&Q: 1857 1862 Fort Madison and Keokuk Railway and Transportation Company: Iowa Southern Railway: CNW: 1913 1920 Chicago and North Western Railway: Iowa Southern Railway: CB&Q: 1868 1870 Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway: Iowa Southern Junction ...
The railroad operates freight trains in two areas in Southern New Jersey. In the Winslow area, trains operate between Winslow Junction and Pleasantville, and between Winslow Junction and the Winslow Hot Mix asphalt plant in Winslow Township. In Gloucester County, the company operates on the Salem Branch between Swedesboro, New Jersey and Woodbury.
California Southern Railroad; Chicago and North Western Transportation Company; Columbus and Greenville Railway; Dakota Southern Railway, South Dakota; Georgia Southern Railroad; Illinois Central Railroad; Illinois Southern Railway, part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad; Indiana Southern Railroad; Iowa Southern Railroad, part of the Wabash Railway
The Franklin Canal Company was chartered on May 21, 1844, and built a railroad from Erie, Pennsylvania, southwest to the Ohio border.The Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad was incorporated February 18, 1848, [2] to build northeast from Cleveland, to join the Canal Company's railroad at the state line, and the full line from Erie to Cleveland, opened November 20, 1852.
The R&D property was formally conveyed to Southern Railway Company by deeds dated January 9, 1896, and August 30, 1897. [18] The Southern Railway Company, incorporated in Virginia on the same date, June 18, 1894, [18] controlled over 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of line at its inception. Samuel Spencer became Southern's first president.
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]