Norfolk & Southern Railway Historical Society

Listing of Existing Norfolk Southern and Norfolk Southern-Related Equipment

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Archer Lodge, N.C. (private property)

-- NS 25010 Boxcar

Bonsal, N.C., New Hope Valley Railway, a project of the East Carolina Chapter of the N.R.H.S.

-- Beaufort & Morehead 75, a Whitcomb design, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton 80 Ton diesel locomotive
-- Beaufort & Morehead 1686, GE center-cab 80 ton diesel locomotive
-- Norfolk Southern 335, wood cupola caboose
-- Norfolk Southern 711, tool car
-- Norfolk Southern 901, camp car, stored on trackage inside grounds of Progress Energy Shearon Harris plant (no public access)

Bridgeton, N.C. (private property) ENDANGERED

-- NS 391, bay window caboose,last caboose NS received in 1969
-- NS 910, sister to the 911 camp car in Spencer

Durham, N.C. (private property)

-- NS 359, wood cupola caboose, built into a home in Durham, NC, x-Keene Yard office (see Model Railroader June 1974 issue). Video from Home & Garden's episode of Offbeat America, episode HOBA-306. Also posted to Youtube. http://youtu.be/fU62AubEsOY

Fuquay-Varina, NC

-- NS 375 steel cupola caboose, in Ashworth Park, largely restored by Tim Carroll and friends of the Musuem of F-V

Jacksonville, NC, ACL Depot

-- Atlantic & East Carolina 309, steel bay window caboose, next door to ACL Depot site

Kings Mountain, NC

-- Norfolk Southern 383 and 388, steel bay window caboose

Laurinburg, NC, L&S Shops

-- ~~Norfolk Southern 701, GE builder #30013. Southern Rwy #701, to Naporano Iron & Metal (5/78); to LRS #110 (6/79)~~ - This has been scrapped in 2010.

Newton, NC

-- Norfolk Southern 376, steel cupola caboose built by Magor in the late-30s, was in front of the old C&NW depot in Lincolnton, NC, Now SAVED! at Southeast Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum at Newton NC http://www.newtondepot.com/

Raleigh, N.C., Pullen Park

-- Norfolk Southern 380, bay window caboose, Southern Railway paint scheme at playground. Courtesy of T.L.

Sanford, N.C., Railroad House

-- Atlantic & Western 2-8-0 #12 (formerly Norfolk Southern 203), stored outside next to Railroad House. Courtesy of R.T.

Spencer, N.C., North Carolina Transportation Museum (Information supplied by NCTM)

-- Norfolk Southern 387, bay window caboose, in roundhouse This caboose was built from an old boxcar by the NS Railway in their shops in 1937. Some railroads converted their old thirty-six foot boxcars into cabooses for use by the train crew. The sides were stripped to the frame, and in this case new sides and bay windows were fashioned so the crew could watch over the train while in route. Large windows allow easy visibility when going through curves. These cabooses were painted either a boxcar red or gray, depending on the decade. The caboose was donated to the Town of Spencer in 1976 and later to the State of North Carolina in 1986. It has been restored in the last paint scheme of gray with red stripes to match the NS diesel 1616 and is displayed in the Robert Julian Roundhouse.
-- Norfolk Southern 911, maintenance-of-way camp car, stored outside adjacent to roundhouse. This car was built in 1943 by the Pullman Company as a US Army troop sleeper. Norfolk Southern purchased the car after World War II and used it in maintenance-of-way service for work crews. Norfolk Southern Corporation donated the car to the State of North Carolina in 1979 and is occasionally used by volunteers working over the weekend. (Stored on the property, not on display).
-- Norfolk Southern 1616, diesel locomotive, in roundhouse This non-operating locomotive was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1955. The AS-416 is one of several that were ordered by the original Norfolk Southern Railway. The 1616 has electrical components supplied by General Electric. The original NS ran from Charlotte, NC through Raleigh to Norfolk, VA. Early dieselization used Baldwins and General Electric 70-tonners. Later they bought EMD GP-18s. The Southern Railway merged the NS Railway into the system in 1974, and after the N&W merger in 1982, used the name in part for the new corporation. After 1974, Southern sold all the remaining Baldwin locomotives, and the 1616 went to the Peabody Coal Company in Lentzburg, Ill. They donated the engine to the State of North Carolina in 1981, and volunteers restored the locomotive to its late 1950s early 1960s appearance. It is now on display in the Robert Julian Roundhouse.
-- Atlantic & East Carolina 606, boxcar, in roundhouse
-- Beaufort & Morehead 1860, model H-12-44 in Spencer, NC at NCTM

Outside of North Carolina

Little Rock, AR

-- NS 2004, x-SOU 2883, x-NS 2883 (until 1996), x-Chattahoochee & Gulf Coast (CHAT) 2883, x-BAYL 2017, MNBR 2017 Little Rock, AR

New Wales, Florida
-- NS 2002, x-SOU 2881, x-NS 2881 (until 1996), x-Georgia and Florida Railway (GFRR) 2881 (unverified)
On page 22 of the November 2011 issue of TRAINS magazine, the article says, "A new player emerges the fire damaged
NS 2002 was the first unit rebuilt by the Knoxville Locomotive Work. The unit had been out of service on the Gulf & Ohio Railways.
The locomotive received KLW20B prime mover." Now Mosaic Fertilizer 41 (SE22B) at New Wales Florida

Panama City, FL (Port St. Joe)
-- NS 2001, x-SOU 2880, x-NS 2880 (until 1996), x-CAGY 2880, x-Luxapalila Valley Railway (LXVR) 2880, Apalachicola Northern 2058 (GP 38-3)
See this link for 2058
-- NS 2003, x-SOU 2882, x-NS 2882 (until 1996), x-GFRR, x-Chattahoochee & Gulf Coast (CHAT), x-WGCR, x-AGLF, awaiting disposition G&W, Panama City, FL

Sarasota, FL
-- Atlantic & East Carolina "Carolina" office car, now "Wisconsin" at the Ringling Museum (Aug. 18th, 2008)
https://www.ringling.org/history-circus-museum
https://www.ringling.org/john-ringlings-amazing-wisconsin-car
http://ringlingdocents.org/train.htm

Albany, GA (unverified)

-- NS 50' boxcar used as MOW storage shed at GFRR posted to Facebook on June 2nd, 2013.

Flowery Branch, GA

-- Norfolk Southern 306, wood caboose, next door to Southern Railway Depot site

Montgomery, IL

-- Norfolk Southern 2, GP-18, x-Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 181, x-SOU 181, x-NS 181, now DLCX 181 – Burlington Jct Rwy, Montgomery, IL

Fergus Falls & Crookston, MN

-- Norfolk Southern 10, GP-18, at Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 189, x-SOU 189, x-NS 189
-- Norfolk Southern 13, GP-18, at St. Croix Valley Railroad (SCXY?, SCVR?) 189, x-SOU 192, x-NS 192, x-OTVR 192
-- Norfolk Southern 15, GP-18, now stripped for parts at Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 194, x-SOU 194, x-NS 194

Columbus, MS

-- NS 2006, x-SOU 2885, x-NS 2885 (until 1996), x-CAGY 2885, ex-Luxapalila Valley Railway (LXVR) 2885

Chattanooga, TN

-- Norfolk Southern 900 Derrick boom, now as Southern 903008 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

Vancouver, WA

-- NS 2007, x-SOU 2886, x-NS 2886 (until 1996), x-GFRR, x-CHAT, x-Three Notch R.R. TNHR, x-AGLF, WGCR, now JLCX, Vancouver, WA

Tottenham, Ontario, Canada

-- Norfolk Southern 703, GE builder #30015. Southern Rwy #703, to Naporano Iron & Metal (5/78); to Lake Ontario Steel 5/78; now presently at South Simcoe Railway now powered by a Cummins VTA1710 V12 engine. http://www.steamtrain.com/

Squamish, BC, Canada

-- Norfolk Southern "Carolina" Business car; PGE "Northern Summit" now at West Coast Railway Association, http://www.wcra.org/

Cuba, Unknown if still in existance

-- Norfolk Southern Railbus car 103 "All of the remaining railbus fleet was sold to several Cuban railroads in June 1948. Car 103 became the president's personal inspection car on one Cuban line and was elaborately refurbished and maintained as No. 1000. It is now C-26 on Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Cuba and is still in inspection car service." - "Rail Cars to Tidewater" by Paul Kutta, National Railway Bulletin, Vol. 48, No. 2, 1983. Photo is from http://www.4thcorp.com/camaguey/fccc/5DelMaterialRodante.htm

Unknown

-- NS 2005, x-SOU 2884, x-NS 2884 (until 1996), sold by NS to a Locomotive Dealer, Location Unknown

Various

There are still NS equipment still in service on today's NS Corp. system. Unknown how many are still around today though. As people alert me to them, I'll post them here. -Rob

Covered hoppers (Most of these were from a group of 150 cars numbered 5300-5449, built in 1973. The last of new cars to be bought by the independent NS.
Bought for phosphate service on the Lee Creek Branch.
From ORERs, it shows that the Southern eventually renumbered them into a 90850-90999 pool (supported by NS 5405->SOU 90920->PLCX 16688).
The 1975 ORER lists 105 still lettered for NS, then the numbers dwindle in 1977 - 80, 1979 - 46, 1980 - 26, 1981 - 18, 1983 - 16.
This last numbering scheme would support PLCX range 16621-16765. By the 1989 ORER, it showed PLCX having 145 of these and SOU - zero.
-- DME 16652, Altoona, PA on 10/25/2008
-- PLCX 16639, Raleigh, NC on 11/08/1999
-- KYLE 16644, Wichita, KS on 3/25/2008, x-PLCX 16644
-- PLCX 16669, Raleigh, NC on February 13, 2006 & NS Lettering on it - Photos courtesy of D.Y., same PLCX 16669, Cary, NC a little earlier on January 27, 2006
-- PLCX 16688, South San Francisco, CA on July 15, 2007, built 09/1973, x-SOU 90920, nee-NS 5405, same PLCX 16688, Lathrop, CA a year earlier on April 29th, 2006
-- PLCX 16726, Christiansburg, VA on January 6, 2004
-- PLCX 16885, in Marion, NE on 05/15/2008, x-SOU 90917 and again 5 miles later in Cedar Bluffs, KS.

Sorted by Equipment

Engines

Steam
--Norfolk Southern 203, Atlantic & Western 2-8-0 #12, stored outside next to Railroad House. Courtesy of R.T., Sanford, NC

GP-38s
-- NS 2001, x-SOU 2880, x-NS 2880 (until 1996), x-CAGY 2880, x-Luxapalila Valley Railway (LXVR) 2880, Apalachicola Northern 2058 (GP 38-3), Panama City, FL (Port St. Joe) See this link for 2058
-- NS 2002, x-SOU 2881, x-NS 2881 (until 1996), x-Georgia and Florida Railway (GFRR) 2881, On page 22 of the November 2011 issue of TRAINS magazine, the article says, "A new player emerges the fire damaged NS 2002 was the first unit rebuilt by the Knoxville Locomotive Work. The unit had been out of service on the Gulf & Ohio Railways. The locomotive received KLW20B prime mover." Now Mosaic Fertilizer 41 (SE22B) at New Wales Florida
-- NS 2003, x-SOU 2882, x-NS 2882 (until 1996), x-GFRR, x-Chattahoochee & Gulf Coast (CHAT), x-WGCR, x-AGLF, awaiting disposition G&W, Panama City, FL
-- NS 2004, x-SOU 2883, x-NS 2883 (until 1996), x-Chattahoochee & Gulf Coast (CHAT) 2883, x-BAYL 2017, MNBR 2017 Little Rock, AR
-- NS 2005, x-SOU 2884, x-NS 2884 (until 1996), sold by NS to a Locomotive Dealer, Location Unknown
-- NS 2006, x-SOU 2885, x-NS 2885 (until 1996), x-CAGY 2885, now Luxapalila Valley Railway (LXVR) 2885, Columbus, MS
-- NS 2007, x-SOU 2886, x-NS 2886 (until 1996), x-GFRR, x-CHAT, x-Three Notch R.R. TNHR, x-AGLF, WGCR, now JLCX, Vancouver, WA

GP-18s (unverified)
-- Norfolk Southern 2, GP-18, x-Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 181, x-SOU 181, x-NS 181, now DLCX 181 – Burlington Jct Rwy, Montgomery, IL
-- Norfolk Southern 10, GP-18, at Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 189, x-SOU 189, x-NS 189
-- Norfolk Southern 13, GP-18, at St. Croix Valley Railroad (SCXY?, SCVR?) 189, x-SOU 192, x-NS 192, x-OTVR 192
-- Norfolk Southern 15, GP-18, now stripped for parts at Otter Tail Valley Railroad (OTVR) 194, x-SOU 194, x-NS 194

Baldwins
-- Norfolk Southern 1616, diesel locomotive, in roundhouse, Spencer, NC at NCTM

GE 70 Ton & Whitcomb 80 Ton
-- Norfolk Southern 701 - GE builder #30013. Southern Rwy #70, to Naporano Iron & Metal (5/78); to LRS #110 (6/79), Laurinburg, NC
-- Norfolk Southern 703, GE builder #30015. Southern Rwy #703, to Naporano Iron & Metal (5/78); to Lake Ontario Steel 5/78; now presently at South Simcoe Railway now powered by a Cummins VTA1710 V12 engine. http://www.steamtrain.com/, Tottenham, Ontario, Canada
-- Beaufort & Morehead 75, a Whitcomb design, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton 80 Ton diesel locomotive, Bonsal, NC
-- Beaufort & Morehead 1686, GE center-cab 80 ton diesel locomotive, Bonsal, NC

Fairbanks Morse
-- Beaufort & Morehead 1860, model H-12-44 in Spencer, NC at NCTM

Railbus (unverified)
-- Norfolk Southern Railbus car 103 "All of the remaining railbus fleet was sold to several Cuban railroads in June 1948. Car 103 became the president's personal inspection car on one Cuban line and was elaborately refurbished and maintained as No. 1000. It is now C-26 on Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Cuba and is still in inspection car service." - "Rail Cars to Tidewater" by Paul Kutta, National Railway Bulletin, Vol. 48, No. 2, 1983. Photo is from http://www.4thcorp.com/camaguey/fccc/5DelMaterialRodante.htm

Rolling Stock

Passenger Cars
-- Norfolk Southern "Carolina" Business car; PGE "Northern Summit" now at West Coast Railway Association, http://www.wcra.org/, Squamish, BC, Canada
-- Atlantic & East Carolina "Carolina" office car, now "Wisconsin" at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL (Aug. 18th, 2008)
http://www.ringling.org/NewsRoom2.aspx?id=3020
http://www.ringling.org/CircusMuseum2.aspx?id=3766

Cabooses
A CATALOG OF CAPTIVE CABOOSE LOCATIONS, courtesy of S. Roger Kirkpatrick, caboose9@charter.net, (updated 9/29/2004)
 
CITY            STATE  CABOOSE #     LOCATION AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Granger?        IN     NS            as DT&I 152, steel, cupola, south of South Bend East KOA Kampground, 
                                     north of town, GONE?
Flowery Branch  GA     NS 306        as Flowery Branch, wood, cupola, Depot
Bonsal          NC     NS 335        wood, cupola, North Carolina Railroad Museum, 919-362-5416
Chickasaw       AL     NS 358        wood, cupola, Chamber of Commerce
Durham          NC     NS 359        wood, built into a private residence
Savannah        GA     NS 368        as fake CofG X368, steel, cupola, History Museum, 303 MLK, Jr Blvd, 
                                     x-Visitors Center, Savannah
Lincolnton      NC     NS 376        steel, cupola, Marvin Fullerton, Carolina & Northwestern Freight Depot, 
                                     201-209 North Poplar St. See new location below in Newton, NC.
Raleigh         NC     NS 380        steel, bay window, Pullen Park
Kings Mountain  NC     NS 383        steel, bay window, built from boxcar, Depot Senior Center, 
                                     Piedmont & Main Streets
Harriman        TN     NS 385        as SOU X385, steel, bay window, built from boxcar, 1408 Ruritan/TN 29, 
                                     from Oakdale, TN
Spencer         NC     NS 387        steel, bay window, NC Transportation Mus. & Spencer Shops, 
                                     411 S. Salisbury Ave., 704-636-2889
Kings Mountain  NC     NS 388        as Whistle Stop Boutique, X388 on frame, steel, bay window, from boxcar, 
                                     Depot, Piedmont & Main
Dallas          NC     NS 389        as SOU X389, steel, bay window, built from boxcar, Depot next to library.
-- NS 306, wood cupola caboose, next door to Southern Railway Depot site, Flowery Branch, GA
-- NS 332, wood cupola caboose in private ownership, Decatur, TN. Relocated from Landrum, SC in 2011.
-- NS 335, wood cupola caboose, stored outside, Bonsal, NC
-- NS 358, wood cupola caboose, Chamber of Commerce, Chickasaw, AL
-- NS 359, wood cupola caboose, built into a home in Durham, NC, x-Keene Yard office (see Model Railroader June 1974 issue). Video from Home & Garden's episode of Offbeat America, episode HOBA-306. Also posted to Youtube. http://youtu.be/fU62AubEsOY
-- NS 365, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, now Algers, Winslow, & Western 112, Prides Creek Golf Course - Petersburg, Indiana - Photo
-- NS 366, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, x-DT&I 152, Sold to Private Party
-- NS 367, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, now Algers, Winslow, & Western 113, Bird's Eye, Indiana - private owner
-- NS 368, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, now Central of Georgia X-368 in Savannah, GA
-- NS 369, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, sold to DT&I, never rebuilt, scrapped
-- NS 370, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, sold to DT&I, never rebuilt, scrapped
-- NS 371, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, x-DT&I 153, sold to a party now at Belleville ONT
-- NS 372, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, x-DT&I 151, sold to a party at Vandalia MI
-- NS 373, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, used as an office on NJT. 203 Port Jersey Blvd, Jersey City, NJ
-- NS 374, steel cupola caboose built by Magor in 1940, x-DT&I 150, destroyed by fire and scrapped
-- NS 375, steel cupola caboose built by Magor, was in Alabama, x-SOU X-257. SAVED, moved & restored by Tim Carrol to Fuquay-Varina, NC at Ashworth Park
-- NS 376, steel cupola caboose built by Magor in 1940, was in front of the old C&NW depot in Lincolnton, NC. Now SAVED! at Southeast Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum at Newton NC http://www.newtondepot.com/
-- NS 380, bay window caboose, Southern Railway paint scheme at playground. Courtesy of T.L., Raleigh, NC
-- NS 381, bay window caboose, converted to some sort of research car as SOU 910808
-- NS 382, bay window caboose, donated to Spartanburg, SC
-- NS 383, bay window caboose. Kings Mountain, NC
-- NS 384, bay window caboose, Southern Railway paint, built into a private residence. Pic2 Courtesy of Stephen Syfrett, Cordele, GA
-- NS 385, bay window caboose, as Southern X385, 1408 Ruritan Rd, Harriman, TN
-- NS 386, bay window caboose, private party at LaGrange, GA
-- NS 387, bay window caboose, in roundhouse, Spencer, NC
-- NS 388, bay window caboose. Kings Mountain, NC
-- NS 389, bay window caboose, Depot next to Library in Dallas, NC Trucks detail showing NS markings
-- NS 391, bay window caboose, last caboose received by NS in 1969, Bridgeton, NC ENDANGERED
-- Atlantic & East Carolina 309, steel bay window caboose, next door to ACL Depot site, Jacksonville, NC

Freight
-- I have seen a photo of an old NS boxcar still in service on today's NS Corp. system. Unknown how many are still around today though. -Rob
-- Atlantic & East Carolina 606, boxcar, in roundhouse, Spencer, NC
-- Covered Hopper, DME 16652, Altoona, PA on 10/25/2008
-- Covered Hopper, PLCX 16726, Christiansburg, VA on January 6, 2004
-- Covered Hopper, PLCX 16669, Raleigh, NC on February 13, 2006 & NS Lettering on it - Photos courtesy of D.Y.
-- Same PLCX 16669, Cary, NC a little earlier on January 27, 2006
-- Covered Hopper, PLCX 16688, South San Francisco, CA on July 15, 2007, built 09/1973, x-SOU 90920, nee-NS 5405
-- Same PLCX 16688, Lathrop, CA a year earlier on April 29th, 2006

MOW
-- Norfolk Southern 711, tool car, stored outside, Bonsal, NC
-- Norfolk Southern 901, camp car, stored on trackage inside grounds of Progress Energy Shearon Harris plant (no public access), Bonsal, NC
-- Norfolk Southern 910, camp car, sister to NS 911 in Spencer, Bridgeton, NC ENDANGERED
-- Norfolk Southern 911, maintenance-of-way camp car, stored outside adjacent to roundhouse. Slated for eventual restoration as troop sleeper, or in restored wreck/work train, Spencer, NC
-- Norfolk Southern 900 Derrick boom, now as Southern 903008 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Chattanooga, TN