Nostalgia & History > Three Photos of the Original Norfolk Southern

This is my first post of some pictures of the original Norfolk Southern Railway that existed between 1942 and 1982. Wikipedia says, "It was purchased by the Southern Railway in 1974 [keeping its name until the Southern] merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1982 to form the Norfolk Southern Railway. At the end of 1970, it operated 624 miles of road on 801 miles of track; that year it reported 710 million ton-miles of revenue freight."



Here are three GP18s.

1. NS 6 at Plymouth, NC on May 24, 1970.

2. NS 8 at Charlotte, NC on October 27, 1968.

3. NS 11 at Norfolk, VA on May 25, 1970.


Enjoy,
Marty Bernard



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/03/14 16:59 by MartyBernard.

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Does anyone have any good pictures of their trains crossing that impressive wooden trestle over Ablemarle Sound?

There was a picture in PTJ back in the late 70's or 80's of a Southern Excursion with FP-7's on the bridge over Ablemare Sound ,but I don't recall any Norfolk Southern freights published on the train.

Thanks Marty. I'm waiting for the Baldwins...

Tomorrow!

> It was purchased by the Southern Railway in 1974 [keeping its name
> until the Southern] merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1982

Well, that's literally true but the "Norfolk Southern Railway" name 1974-1982 was of concern only to lawyers and accountants. It didn't take Southern long, for example, to renumber and repaint the NS locomotives (the ones they kept, at least).

Had a brief "cab ride" in #13 at an early age. A great memory!

Tom Y

That would be the perfect paint scheme for the
present Norfolk Southern.

Marty, thanks for the Baldwins on the original Norfolk Southern.  Any photos at Pinetown where the branch took off to Belhaven?  My Grandparents lived in Pinetown during WWII.  We rode the train once from Berkely Va. to Pinetown (near Washington N.C.) during the war.  They were running ancient 4-6-O's and old looking coaches then.  No air conditioning but you could raise the windows up.  They had screens in the windows trying to keep the cinders out.  I remember the crossing of the Albemarle Sound on the long trestle bridge.  I looked out the rear car and you could see the bridge swaying as we crossed.  They could not reach bedrock when building the bridge in some places so it went up and down like being mounted in chewing gum.