The Southern Railway

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

Overview

Go inside the transition from steam to diesel, the pinnacle of rail travel and the development of the South through much of the 20th century.

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 Norfolk Southern continues to "serve the South."

In 2003, the Southern Railway Historical Association selected the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History as the repository for its extensive archives. Included in this collection are hundreds of professional quality, black-and-white photographs taken by company photographers throughout the railway's history. While a few of these images have been seen by the public, the vast majority have not.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738516417
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/13/2004
Series:	Images of Rail
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	638,689
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

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.


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.


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.


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.


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.