Beth Anne Keates 128 pages softcover
Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway covers the history of this
railroad, beginning with the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road
Company, which in 1830 operated the first regularly scheduled passenger
train in the United States. Among the many railroads that became part of
Norfolk Southern was the Pennsylvania Railroad, whose completion of the
Horseshoe Curve in 1854 was an outstanding engineering achievement that
transformed land transportation across Pennsylvania, contributing to
the growth of the railroad. By 1882, it became the largest railroad in
the world. Norfolk Southern's special painted locomotives, representing
many of the railroads that became part of its heritage, are included in
this book.
