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Canadian National Canadian National Railways was incorporated June 6, 1919, to operate several carriers that had come under governmental control…
Read moreCanadian National Canadian National Railways was incorporated June 6, 1919, to operate several carriers that had come under governmental control…
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Canadian Pacific Railway Canadian Pacific, like its American counterpart Union Pacific, has the “right” name, one that endures, though CP…
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Conrail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) After the failure of Penn Central in 1970, the government formed the United States Railway Association…
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CSX Transportation CSX Corporation was formed on November 1, 1980. Subsidiary CSX Transportation absorbed Seaboard System Railroad on July 1,…
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Kansas City Southern Railway Kansas City Southern, which began as the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf in 1890, was completed…
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Operational organization of Mexican railroads from 1960 to 1987 Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (NdeM) División de Cárdenas División del Centro,…
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Norfolk Southern Corp. was created as a new holding company to acquire Norfolk & Western Railway and Southern Railway, effected…
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Pan Am Railways In March of 2006, Guilford Transportation Industries’ rail properties were rebranded under the name Pan Am Railways,…
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The Union Pacific Railroad is the last major U.S. rail system whose name has never changed, dating from its charter…
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Norfolk & Western Y6-Class 2-8-8-2 No. 2136 thunders east near Delbarton, W.Va., with a coal train on March 25, 1959.…
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Capturing the disappearing aspects of American life is photographer David Plowden’s stock in trade. He proudly relates that his first…
Read moreDavid W. Salter’s natural curiosity took him trackside throughout the South in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, photographing railroads in…
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