Train #6, the Piedmont Limited, heads north at Spartanburg with a GP38-2 in the lead, an NS GP18, four F-Units, and piggybacks on the rear. Southern took over the "original" Norfolk Southern Railway in 1974.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
Selected photos of locomotives, passenger cars, and rolling stock in the Southern's livery as well as other assets once belonging to or used by the Southern.