Southern Railway

Name: Southern Railway
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ISBN: 9780738516417

ISBN-10: 0738516414

ISBN-13: 9780738516417

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sallie Loy, Dick Hillman, C. Pat Cates, Southern Museum Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Southern Railway Historical Association

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The Southern Railway was the pinnacle of rail service in the South for nearly 100 years. Its roots stretch back to 1827, when the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company was founded in Charleston to provide freight transportation and America's first regularly scheduled passenger service. Through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Great Depression, rail lines throughout the South continued to merge, connecting Washington, D.C. to Atlanta and Charleston to Memphis. The Southern Railway was born in 1893 at the height of these mergers. It came to an end in 1982, merging with Norfolk and Western Railway to become Norfolk Southern Railway. The history of the railway lives on, however, and…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 4/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English

Authors Sallie Loy, Dick Hillman, and C. Pat Cates have selected over 200 photographs to document this legacy in Images of Rail: The Southern Railway. They serve as archivist, assistant curator, and assistant archivist, respectively, at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia.