NORFOLK SOUTHERN
Today's Norfolk Southern (the name was previously used by a regional road running from Norfolk, VA to Charlotte, NC and is a component of today's NS), was a result of the 1982 merger of two sucessful lines, the Southern Railway and the Norfolk & Western. With the 1999 breakup of Conrail the NS acquired much of the old Pennsy including the mainline across central PA and Horseshoe Curve and the old E-L Southern Tier line from Buffalo to New Jersey.
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B30-7A #3501 & GP50 #7051 have cut off of their train in the D&H North Yd. at William St. in Buffalo, NY on September 22, 1990. The CP/'NYSW power in the background will take over for the trip east to Binghamton, NY. |
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C30-7 #8036 leads a pack of NS power on BC-01 west at Blasdell, NY on April 26, 1987. The train is ducking under the Conrail (ex PRR) Seneca Branch. After the CR breakup the NS would wind up owning that line as well. |
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C40-8 #8736 leads C39-8 #8578 on T#146 on July 23, 1994. The train is westbound on Conrail's Belt Line approaching CP T at Military Road in Buffalo, NY. |
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C40-9W #9471 leads a westbound freight at Chemung, NY on April 13, 2003. This is the ex Conrail, exx E-L Southern Tier Line. |
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GP38 #4147 and an N&W caboose have local job L20A in tow as they leave the Buffalo Jct. Yard at Seneca Street in Buffalo, NY on September 8, 1986. |
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GP40X #7000 (note the flared radiators) leads a freight past the tower at Alexis, OH on July 25, 1998. The Southern bought three of these units which were the prototype for the GP50 line to follow. |
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GP50 #7047 has roadrailer train #240 eastbound at Clinton St. in Buffalo, NY on November 18, 1990. The train is a few miles from it's terminus at Bison Yd. Roadrailer service to Buffalo lasted only a few years and was shifted to Rochester when Conrail became a Triple Crown partner with NS. |
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GP60's #7137, 7141, 7105 and C40-8 #8725 lead train #274 north across the St. John's River bridge at Jacksonville, FL on April 21, 2002. |
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A trio of GP60's #7121,7136 & 7107 lead train #321 south across the FEC St.John's River drawbridge in Jacksonville, FL on April 21, 2002. The NS will turn the train over to the FEC in Bowden Yard, a few miles away. |
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SD40 #1618 & GP38 #2825 are getting ready to pull out of CP's SK Yard in Buffalo, NY on March 3, 1996. In the snowy background is a Susquehanna stack train just arrived in from Binghamton. |
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A single SD40-2 #3287 pulls Maersk Line T#272 west on Conrail's Belt Line at Delaware Ave. in Buffalo, NY on March 19, 1989. The NS ran this train about once a week to the CN's ramp in Welland, ON. |
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SD50 #6556 leads a GP40 on an eastbound unit grain train at Huntingburg, IN on September 24, 1989. Two more units were midtrain controlled via an ex SR radio control car. |
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SD60 #6644 and SD40-2 #6187 pull out of the yard in Mobile, Al and onto the low bridge over 3 Mile Creek on April 10, 2005. |
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B30-7A #3504 and and SD40-2 are westbound on intermodal T#269 passing under the old Nickel Plate era signal bridge in Blasdell, NY on May 24, 1997. The train is about 20 minutes into it's run from SK Yard where it was turned over by the CP to the NS.