Setting the history record straight

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Subject: Setting the history record straight


Historians,
 
As we all know, the surviving rail corporation is Norfolk Southern, aka NS.
Was or was not the rail company of many years ago known as Norfolk & Southern, aka N&S   ???
 
Thanks,
Dave Willis
(blt 1962, c/n 4)


Dave:
There WAS a Norfolk & Southern.  The outfit wandered in and out of
receivership many times.  The problem became to retain the reporting
marks on the rolling stock similar.  When the Norfolk & Southern 
Railway went into receivership, the surviving company became the
Norfolk Southern with the ampersand covered over with a diamond. The
railroad wandered out of receivership about 1940 for the last time and
became the Norfolk Southern Railway Company. Similarly, there was a
Seaboard Air Line Railroad and a Seaboard Air Line Railway.  Harry Bundy 

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