Papers (1953-1957) including correspondence and a clipping relating to assessments of railroad properties.
The Southern Railway Company was based in the Southern United States from 1894-1982. The Southern Railway was a railroad combined from almost 150 predecessor lines. By the end of 1971, the railroad operated for 6,029 miles (about 9702.73 km). It also had several subsidiary lines, including the Central of Georgia line (1,729 miles) and the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway (415 miles). In 1980, the railroad combined with Norfolk and Western Railway to become the Norfolk Southern Corporation. Since 1982, the railroad has been known as the Norfolk Southern Railway and as of 2023 has a length of 19,335 miles (about 31116.67 km).
The majority of this collection consists of letters written by William D. McLean (1953) and Robert Pruitt (1954-1956), tax commissioners of the Southern Railway System, to J. C. Bethune, Secretary of the N.C. State Board of Assessment, advising him to make assessment changes on the Southern Railway property in Mecklenburg, Guilford, Alamance, Forsyth, Davidson, Rowan, and Cleveland counties, N.C.
A newspaper clipping from the Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer (19 February 1957) relates that the Interstate Commerce Commission has authorized the Southern Railway Company to acquire stock control of the Atlantic and East Carolina Railway.
Processed by D. Lennon, October 1967
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