Contact
2222 W. Club Blvd.
Durham, NC 27705
contact@norfolksouthernhs.org

Welcome!

For those of you looking for information about the now present Norfolk Southern Corporation, they can be found here: http://www.nscorp.com/
Note to people searching for Employee Records/Retirement Records/Family Genealogy:
NSHS does not have any Norfolk Southern Railway employee records. It is recommended that you contact the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, which you can contact at 844 North Rush, Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 751-4500, or on the web at The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board: http://www.rrb.gov/

Norfolk & Southern Historical Society News

N & S Historical Society Annual Meeting in Oakboro, NC April 16th, 2011 (updated June 4th, 2010)
Agenda TBD

July 27, 2010
New Bowser AS-616 Locomotives (Announced at NMRA 2010 Convention)

Ready To Run and Fully Detailed. New die cast frame with a new fuel tank, fuel fills, and site glass. Brass MU Hoses, brass air hoses, brass windshield wipers, steel grab irons, steel coupler lift bars, operating headlight, window glass, can motor, brass flywheels, nickel silver wheels with RP25 flanges, metal knuckle couplers, warm white LED headlight. New handrails (installed). Body is easily removed if necessary. NMRA 8-pin plug for DCC (Decoder-ready)

The sound locos will be equipped with SoundTraxx Tsunami Digital Sound Decoders

DC $169.95 / DCC with Sound $279.95
Due Early 2011 Prefered Order Date 9-15-10

For more information: http://www.bowser-trains.com/New_Products/New 2007-18-10 AS-616/New 07-18-10 AS 616.htm

June 30, 2010
New Atlas 1932 ARA Box Car (released June 2010)

Added new Atlas 1932 ARA Box Car to the Modeling page. Three numbers available in both HO and N scale (25229, 25246, 25499).

April 16, 2010
Updated NSHS Annual Meeting Agenda and new Existing Equipment

Added DME 16652 covered hopper to the surviving equipment page.

N & S Historical Society Annual Meeting in New Bern, NC April 17th, 2010 (updated April 16th, 2010)

Schedule April 17th, 2010:
9 AM - Frit Car Inc. Tour, Behind Handy Mart, 2020 US Highway 17, New Bern, N.C. http://www.fritcar.com/
12 Noon - Lunch @ Chelsea, 335 Middle Street, New Bern (downtown) http://thechelsea.com/
1:30 PM - Viewing of former New Bern Union Station mural, New Bern Academy Building (Academy Museum), New and Hancock Streets (500 Hancock St).
http://www.tryonpalace.org/newbernacademy.html
2 PM - Annual Meeting @ Olde Pinnix Drug Store, 628 Hancock Street
3:00 PM - Restore Union Station, Presentation by New Bern Preservation Foundation
3:30 PM - View New Bern Union Station (outside only)
4:00 PM - 100th Birthday - Union Station Reception, Hosted by New Bern Preservation Foundation, New Bern Historical Society and the Preservation Legal Action Trust at the Olde Pinnix Drug Store
4:30 PM - Carolina Coastal Railroaders Club Layout Tour, 2001 South Glenburnie Road, New Bern, NC
http://carolinacoastalrailroaders.org/

February 19, 2010
NS 2007 added to surviving equipment page as THNR 2886. Three Notch R. R.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1231353

January 28, 2010
New Athearn Wood Chip Hopper (released late 2009, more in 2010)

Added new Athearn Wood Chip Hopper to the Modeling page. Several numbers and 4-packs are available with new 4-pack sets being made for 2010.

January 27, 2010
S. David Carriker's book

Added S. David Carriker's book "Railroading in the Carolina Sandhills: Volume 1 & 2" to the NSarticles page.

January 7, 2010
N S Historical Society Annual Meeting

We will be meeting in New Bern, NC on Saturday, April 17th, 2010. The agenda will be announced in the next month.

Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009
NS 384 added to surviving equipment page

Thought you may be interested in hearing about this former NS caboose, No. 384. See the attached photos. The caboose is located on private property, but I was allowed to take some photos back in 2006. As you can see from the photos, it has been made into a cabin with a stick-built addition extending off the left side between the bay and the A-end, and a deck along the rest of that side all the way to the B-end platform. From the placement of the addition, a hole had to be cut in the side of the car near the A-end on the left side. How big the hole is I had no way of determining. The B-end leaf-spring truck had NOR-SOU. RR. cast on the side-frame. I did not check the A-end truck.

The car is south of Cordele out of view on the east side of US41 just north of the GA300 interchange. You may be able to spot it on Google Earth.

Stephen Syfrett
Albany, GA

Sunday, April 26, 2009
N S Historical Society Annual Meeting

We will be meeting at the NC Railway Museum in New Hope (Bonsal, NC) on Saturday May 2, 2009. The agenda will be as follows.

9:30 to 11:30 AM The railway museum will be open for walking around the various displays and the company store should also be open to accept any funds you want to spend.
11:30 to 12:15 PM Lunch
12:15 to 1:30 PM The Business meeting will be on one of the train cars.
2:00 to 3:30 PM Train ride. The Museum may be able to do a run by.

Since there are no restaurants close by, we have made arrangements with Old Time Barbecue to cater a lunch. The menu will be Eastern Carolina Pork Barbecue along with hush puppies, potatoes and green beans. Drinks will include Sweet Tea and Lemonade. If you would rather have something else to eat or drink, you will need to bring it with you. A $9.00 donation per person is suggested. The Society will have to pay for any difference in the total bill. At present we have given a number of 60 people to Old Time. Make sure that you send back the enclosed flyer with the total number of people that you intend to bring to lunch. Money will be collected on May 2nd.
The Society has also had to commit to a cost of $375.00 to the NC Railway Museum for the Train ride. The cost of an adult is $9.00 and children 12 years and younger is $6.00. The total seats on the Train are 239 seats. To pre reserve seats please send in your money along with the enclosed form. You will be able to pick up your tickets after 9:30 AM on the 2nd. You can also invite your non member friends to ride the train, as long as someone pays for the ticket. The Train ride will be a first come first serve basis. If we go past 239 then we will have a standby list.
If you have any questions you can contact me (John Janosko) at 919 656 6897. Hope everyone can come and I for one intend on having a great time.
Posted by Norfolk Southern Historical Society Web Admin at 7:40 PM

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Save the NS 701!!!
http://norfolksouthernhs.org/ns701.htm

Save a piece of North Carolina history! As railroaders in this state, we all know another Norfolk Southern existed long ago, and now is almost completely gobbled up in the flurry of mergers and abandonments of the last thirty years. Still, an original piece of the old NS remains in locomotive NS 701, currently in storage, but now threatened with the scrapper’s torch! We at the NS Historical Society and the North Carolina Railway Museum feel a tangible piece of history like this should be preserved, and believe you feel the same way. We have therefore established the NS 701 Preservation and Restoration Fund. If you are interested in seeing a real part of our railroad heritage preserved for the enjoyment and education of your future generations, please send a donation of any size to:

NS 701 Preservation and Restoration Fund
c/o North Carolina Railway Museum, Inc.
Post Office Box 40
New Hill, NC 27562
All donations are tax deductible. Please help us in this worthwhile cause, and keep our common history alive.

These 70-tonners once ran the rails at Bonsal, NC during construction of the relocation of the NS rail line during the building of Jordan Lake, so it would be fitting that we bring one of them back to the New Hope Valley Railway! They were the first NS purchase of locomotive power other than Baldwin since 0-6-0 number 14 back in 1900. Delivered to the NS from GE in June 1948, they were the only 70-tonners used to pull the mail and express trains (#1 & #2) between Raleigh and Norfolk, VA. The last run of the mail train was December 12th, 1951 and after that, these engines were used in local and branch line service and as switchers at the smaller yards. After #702 was sold in 1964, the other two (701 & 703) spent most of their time around New Bern and on the Bayboro Branch. After the 1974 merger with Southern Railway, they were repainted again into the Southern black colors and remained on the SR roster until 1978. The Norfolk & Southern was the only Class 1 railroad to have its' Headquarters located in Raleigh, NC.
Posted by Norfolk Southern Historical Society Web Admin at 7:39 PM

Friday, March 13, 2009
New NSHS website!

This marks the new update website (actually third revision) for the Norfolk Southern Historical Society. Hopefully this will make it a bit easier to keep up with any new changes to the website.
-Rob
Posted by Norfolk Southern Historical Society Web Admin at 1:08 PM