Setting the history record straight

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The original Norfolk Southern (Norfolk & Southern Railway) that ran from Norfolk, VA to Charlotte, NC with various branches (Aberdeen, Asheboro, Beaufort, Belhaven, Carthage, Columbia, Durham, Ellerbe, Fayetteville, Goldsboro (A&EC), Jackson Springs, Lee Creek, Oriental, Snow Hill (A&EC), Suffolk and Virginia Beach, VA). It was merged into the Southern Railway system on Jan. 1st, 1974.

The present Norfolk Southern was formed in 1982 with the creation of the Norfolk Southern Corporation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_Southern_Corporation>, a holding company<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_company>, and on December 31, 1990, the Southern Railway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_(US)> was renamed the Norfolk Southern Railway, and control of the Norfolk and Western Railway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_and_Western_Railway> was transferred from the holding company to the Norfolk Southern Railway. In 1999, the system grew substantially with the acquisition of over half of Conrail<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrail>.

The only relationship of the current Norfolk Southern to the original is that some portions of the original's trackage existed within the current Norfolk Southern Corporation's System from the 1974 acquisition of the original Norfolk Southern by the Southern Railway. Most if not all the remaining trackage in 2012 has been sold or leased to short line operators.  Much of the original Norfolk Southern is abandoned.

Ed Painter;  Narrows, VA living in Russellville, AR

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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)
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