SOUTHERN RAILWAY
As it's name implied, the Southern Railway covered the southeastern U.S, in particular blanketing the state of Georgia. The SR was notable in recent times for electing to remain out of Amtrak and operating it's own passenger trains until 1979 and for ordering it's diesels with a high short hood, long after other roads adopted the low nose as standard. In 1982 the Southern merged with the Norfolk & Western to produce today's Norfolk Southern.
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High nose B30-7A #3519 is parked under the I-190 bridge in NS's Buffalo Jct. Yd. in Buffalo, NY on January 3, 1988. Finding units still in SR paint at this late date was pretty uncommon as NS painted their units fairly rapidly after the merger. |
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GP30 #2547 and GP38-2's #5194, 5107 & 5046 are parked at the small yard in Evansville, IN on July 27, 1980. Evansville was on the line to St. Louis. |
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GP35's #214, 2707 and 2 GP30's have a northbound freight in tow at Pine Knot, KY on May 24, 1981. |
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The same train passes a cut of empty hoppers on a siding at Whitley City, KY. This is the Southern's legendary Rat Hole line. |
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The train makes it's way past the signal bridges at Sloans Valley, KY on May 24, 1981. |
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The engineer opens the throttle up on a straight section of the line near Eubank, KY. Note that the second GP35 is riding on Alco trucks used from trade-ins that the railroad supplied to EMD. |
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GP38 #2846 is coupled to a pair of NS SD40-2's and an N&W caboose at Buffalo, NY on May 31, 1986. |
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GP38 #2865 is switching on local LU01 at Tifft St. in Buffalo, NY on December 27, 1988. Just a trace of snow is on the ground. |
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GP50 #7072 leads a northbound train through a deep cut near Robbins, TN on the Rat Hole line on May 24, 1981. The Southern eliminated a number of tunnels on the line by daylighting them. |
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The same train crossing the massive bridge over the Cumberland River near Burnside, KY on 5-24-81. |
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A pair of MP15DC's #2382 & 2367 in the yard at Cincinnati, OH on May 25, 1981. |
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SD35 #3060 shows off her high nose in the B&O yard at Lima, OH on May 22, 1981. |
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The Southern in Snow: SD40-2 #3326 and GP38-2 #5013 have NS train DB-28 on Conrail's Belt Line at Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo, NY on January 26, 1985. |
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SD45 #3114 and Western Maryland SD35 #7436 have a southbound freight at Pine Knot, KY on May 24, 1981. |
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SW7's #1124, 1098 and NW2 #1050 are at New River, TN on May 24, 1981. |