| This 50’
gondola with Barber Roller Bearing trucks was built for Southern
Railway as SOU 66308. After the Norfolk Southern merger of 1982,
at some point in the 2000s, it was repainted with white ends for
Combo Loading of locomotive traction motors. Founded in 1982 through
the mergers of Norfolk & Western and the Southern Railway,
Norfolk Southern grew further in the late 1990s with the acquisition
of just over half of the trackage and assets of Conrail Corporation.
Today, NS is one of the largest Class 1 Railroads with over 30,000
employees and operates nearly 22,000 miles of track in the Eastern
and Midwestern United States. |
