![]() ![]() Perhaps its classic Virginia Green livery was quite befitting for such a profitable and highly respected company. Outwardly, it lived up to its name quite well as the South's largest railroad serving virtually every state below the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Mississippi River. ![]() The Southern was a well-oiled machine with precision-like efficiency. So well in fact that legendary railroader Jim McClellan is quoted as saying the company was a rather boring place to work (from Rush Loving, Jr.'s book, " The Men Who Loved Trains").Īs a longtime officer who later worked at Norfolk Southern, McClellan knew of what he spoke. Its immediate predecessor was the Richmond & Danville while a myriad of other systems came together in comprising a network of more than 6,000 route miles.įrom an early period, excellent management defined the Southern. ![]() One of America's great transportation companies was the Southern Railway. ![]()
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