Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Southern Railway is not the Southern Pacific Railroad

From: "pswanson" zeropen@comcast.net

I have several vintage photos of steam engines labeled "Southern" with several different numbers ranging from 325 to 1349. Is this the same railway company as Southern Pacific? Other photos I have seen of "Southern Pacific" engines have both Southern and Pacific written on them. Are they two separate entities? ...

—P. Swanson