Southern Railway Lantern Armspear Man'fg Co S. Ry. 1886
This is a Vintage piece of Railroad History made by ARMSPEAR MANUFACTURING COMPANY for the SOUTHERN RAILWAY. The frame is marked ARMSPEAR MAN'FG CO.
Patented JUNE 8, 1886, last date OCT. The brass burner is marked DRESSEL N. Burner and twist off fuel fount is in good working condition. The Corning extended clear glass globe is embossed Southern.NO CRACKS some small flea chips around the rims. One star wheel on the burner is loss.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Southern Railway (UK). A Southern Railway train in 1969. The Southern Railway also known as Southern Railway Company ; reporting mark. SOU was a class 1 railroad. Based in the Southern United States.Between 1894 and 1982, when it merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway. (N&W) to form the Norfolk Southern Railway. The railroad was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894. At the end of 1971, the Southern operated 6,026 miles (9,698 km) of railroad, not including its Class I subsidiaries Alabama Great Southern (528 miles or 850 km); Central of Georgia (1729 miles); Savannah & Atlanta (167 miles); Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (415 miles); Georgia Southern & Florida (454 miles); and twelve Class II subsidiaries. The railroad joined forces with the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1980 to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation.
The Norfolk Southern Corporation was created in response to the creation of the rival CSX Corporation. By a number of railroads in the eastern United States its rail system was later transformed to CSX Transportation. Southern and N&W continued as operating companies of Norfolk Southern until in 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.