Southern Railway (U.S.)

The Southern Railway (reporting mark SOU) (also known as Southern Railway Company and now known as the current incarnation of the Norfolk Southern Railway) is a name of a class 1 railroad that was based in the Southern United States. The railroad is the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894.

At the end of 1971, the Southern operated 6,025 miles of railroad, not including its Class I subsidiaries AGS (530 miles) CofG (1730 miles) S&A (165 miles) CNOTP (415 miles) GS&F (455 miles) and twelve Class II subsidiaries. That year, the Southern itself reported 26110 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 110 million passenger-miles; AGS reported 3855 and 10, CofG 3595 and 15, S&A 140 and 0, CNO&TP 4905 and 0.5, and GS&F 1430 and 0.5.

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The Southern Railway (reporting mark SOU) (also known as Southern Railway Company and now known as the current incarnation of the Norfolk Southern Railway) is a name of a class 1 railroad that was based in the Southern United States. The railroad is the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894.

At the end of 1971, the Southern operated 6,025 miles of railroad, not including its Class I subsidiaries AGS (530 miles) CofG (1730 miles) S&A (165 miles) CNOTP (415 miles) GS&F (455 miles) and twelve Class II subsidiaries. That year, the Southern itself reported 26110 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 110 million passenger-miles; AGS reported 3855 and 10, CofG 3595 and 15, S&A 140 and 0, CNO&TP 4905 and 0.5, and GS&F 1430 and 0.5.

The railroad joined forces with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) in 1982 to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The Norfolk Southern Corporation was created in response to the creation of the CSX Corporation (its rail system was later transformed to CSX Transportation in 1986). Southern and N&W continued as operating companies of Norfolk Southern until 1990, when Norfolk Southern merged nearly all of N&W's operations into Southern to form the Norfolk Southern Railway. The railroad has used that name since, though N&W continued to exist on paper until 1997.

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