Gather The Southern Railway Engineered By Sallie Loy Issued As Textbook

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Great read, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of the pictures of a bygone era, I highly recommend this book to anyone interest in rail history, I rode the Southern Crescent between Atlanta, GA and Clemson, SC so often that I've always loved rail travel, Here's

a pictorial essay, more than I've read about the Southern Railway, Tickets The Southern Railway was the pinnacle of rail service in the South for nearlyyears, Its roots stretch back to, when the South Carolina Canal amp 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 inat the height of these mergers, It came to an end in, 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, the Southern Railway Historical Association selected the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History as the repository for their extensive archives.
Included in this collection are hundreds of professional quality, blackandwhite photographs taken by company photographers throughout the railway's history, These photographs not only capture the transition from steam to diesel and the pinnacle of rail travel, but also the development of the South through much of theth century.
While a few of these images have been seen by the public, the vast majority have not, .