A History of the Legal Development of the Railroad System of Southern Railway Company
Author: Fairfax Harrison
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 1544
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Author: Fairfax Harrison
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 1544
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 13
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sallie Loy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738516417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Southern Railway was the pinnacle of rail service in the South for nearly 100 years. Its roots stretch back to 1827, when the South Carolina Canal & 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 in 1893 at the height of these mergers. It came to an end in 1982, 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 2003, 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, black-and-white 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 the 20th century. While a few of these images have been seen by the public, the vast majority have not.
Author: Southern Railway (U.S.)
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 9
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Murray
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Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781610605090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Webb
Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780919783195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Southern Railway (U.S.)
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Published: 197?
Total Pages: 1
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: American Railway Association. Special Committee on National Defense
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Reynolds Nelson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005-10-12
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0807876100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.