Maps of the Southern Railway – SOU
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- Maps | Locomotives
- Predecessors | SCC&RR | LC&C | ET&V | ET&G | V&T | ETV&G | VT&G Air Line | R&D | M&C | CNO&TP | V&K | BC&ING | SA&O | V&SW | BE&NC | HRR | Interstate
- Passenger Trains | Asheville Sp | Birmingham Sp | Carolina Sp | Crescent | Peach Queen | Pelican | Piedmont Ltd | Ponce | Palm | Southerner | Tennessean
- Cities: Bristol TN/VA
- Related Lines: Embreeville Br | JC & Carolina | JC Southern
- Key Leaders | J. P. Morgan | S. Spencer | W. G. Claytor | S. Cunningham
- Today: Norfolk Southern
- Railfan Guides: Virginia & Southwestern
- Resources & Sources: Books | Scholars-Authors | Museums | Associations | Website Editor | Site Map
- Related Websites: Rails Across the Appalachians | Clinchfield.org
Southern Railway Maps
1895 Map
1921 Map
Click here for a full screen version of the map.
1923 Map
Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.
1927 Map
Click link to see in greater detail, use the button to download
Map Credit: Poor’s Publishing and personal collection
1952 Southern Railway Passenger Train Map
Map Legend: Green – Crescent and Piedmont Limited, Yellow – Southerner, Brown – Peach Queen, Blue – Pelican, Black – Birmingham Special, Orange – Tennessean, Purple – Ponce de Leon and Royal Palm, Red: Asheville Special, Pink – Carolina Special
Click here for an interactive version with Google Maps
1967 Map
More Southern Railway information will be added to this page and others in the days ahead. Please let me know if you have any edits that should be made or any content you are willing to share by utilizing the comment form below. Would enjoy hearing from you if you have similar interests in the railroads, the region, or model railroading.
Southern-Railroads.org Sources and Resources
The following are excellent resources for those of you wanting to explore and learn more about the Southern Railway and its predecessors. These sources of information also serve as reference and historical materials for Southern-Railroads.org. Much of the content on the website is verified across multiple sources.
- Associations:
- Archives:
- The Center for Southeastern Railroad Research, Chattanooga TN
- Norfolk & Western Historical Society Archives, Roanoke VA
- Archives of Appalachia, Johnson City TN
- Personal maps, timetables, track charts, and memorabilia
- Books
- Davis: The Southern Railway, Road of the Innovators
- Drury: The Historical Guide to North American Railroads
- Flanary, Lindsey & Oroszi: The Southern Railway
- Grant: The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road
- Graybeal: The Railroads of Johnson City
- Harshaw: Trains Trestles & Tunnels, Railroads of the Southern Appalachians
- Lindsey: Norfolk Southern 1995 Review
- Poole: A History of Railroading in Western North Carolina
- Reisweber: Southern Railway Power
- Scales: Natural Tunnel, Nature’s Marvel in Stone
- Stout: Southern Railway: Through Passenger Service
- Ward: Southern Railway Varnish 1964-1979
- Webb: The Southern Railway System: An Illustrated History
- Wiley & Wallace: The Southern Railway Handbook
- Withers & Sink: Southern: A Motive Power Pictorial
- Wolfe: The Interstate Railroad
- Wolfe: Southern Railway Appalachia Division
- Young: Appalachian Coal Mines & Railroads, Volume 2, Virginia
- Magazines – Trains, Classic Trains
- Websites:
- American Rails
- Britannica
- Carolana.com – North Carolina Railroads, South Carolina Railroads
- Encyclopedia.com
- Hawkinsrails.net
- History.com
- Johnson’s Depot hosted by StateOfFranklin.net
- Multimodalways.org: Norfolk Southern Track Charts
- Newspapers.com
- NewYorkTimes.com
- ProgressiveRailroading.com
- RailFanGuides.us for Johnson City
- SteamLocomotive.com
- TheDieselShop.us
- VirginiaPlaces.org – Railroad History of Virginia
- WashingtonPost.com
- Wikipedia.org
3Cs Websites
Appalachian-Railroads.org | Clinchfield.org | Southern-Railroads.org
