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The Queen and Crescent Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the United States of America.
It was operated over a historic route that had been established in the late 1800s called the Queen and Crescent Route, which referred to Cincinnati as the “Queen City” and New Orleans as the “Crescent City”.
The Southern Railway (reporting mark SOU) (also known as Southern Railway Company and now known as the Norfolk Southern Railway) was a Class 1 Railroad based in the Southern United States between 1894 and 1982, when it merged with the Norfolk & Western to form Norfolk Southern.
The railroad was the product of nearly 150 predecessor Rail Lines that were combined, re-organised, and recombined, beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming The Southern Railway in 1894.[1]
The Queen and Crescent Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the United States of America.
It was operated over a historic route that had been established in the late 1800s called the Queen and Crescent Route, which referred to Cincinnati as the “Queen City” and New Orleans as the “Crescent City”.
The train began service in 1926 and it was never a financial success. The Southern Railway operated the Queen and Crescent Limited from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Orleans, Louisiana via Lexington, Kentucky, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Birmingham, Alabama and Meridian, Mississippi.
The new train carried both coaches and Pullman sleepers and a dining car. Its road numbers on the Southern Railway were #43 (Southbound) and #44 (Northbound).
The new train carried both coaches and Pullman sleepers and a dining car. Its road numbers on the Southern Railway were #43 (Southbound) and #44 (Northbound).
The railroad was the product of nearly 150 predecessor Rail Lines that were combined, re-organised, and recombined, beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming The Southern Railway in 1894.[1]
Postcard showing The Southern Railway Train,
“The Tennessean”, in its 1940s livery,
hauled by a EMD E6A Locomotive.
Date: Between 1941 to 1968.
Source: eBay item
Author: Southern Railway System.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Railroad joined forces with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) in 1980 to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation.
The Norfolk Southern Corporation was created in response to the creation of the CSX Corporation (its Rail System was later transformed to CSX Transportation in 1986).
Southern and N&W continued as operating companies of Norfolk Southern until 1982, when Norfolk Southern merged nearly all of N&W’s operations into Southern, to form the Norfolk Southern Railway. The Railroad has used that name since.
