Setting the history record straight

[NW Mailing List]

On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:23 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> 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   ???


No this was/is not the same company.  The old Norfolk Southern that ran from Norfolk, Va to Charlotte, NC was bought/ merged into  the Southern in 1974 as a separate subsidiary.  Whence at the time of the merger of the Southern and the Norfolk & Western in 1982 all Southern locomotives sub-lettered NS were relettered CRN for the Carolina & Northwestern as the Norfolk Southern was merged into this Southern subsidiary.  The purpose of this was the old Norfolk Southern had to cease to exist as a company and/or corporation so that the new company formed from the merger of the Southern and Norfolk & Western could use the name Norfolk Southern.  There was one interim name for the new company when the filing for merger went to the STB but I cannot remember that name.  The name Norfolk & Southern might have been that interim name.

James Wall
Winston Salem NC
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