NS Archives Donation

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The following is from today's online Progressive Railroading:

Norfolk Southern Corp. 
<https://www.progressiverailroading.com/norfolk_southern/>has donated 
the full Southern Railway company archives, as well as $500,000, to 
theAtlanta History Center <https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/>.

The archives, which include hundreds of thousands of pages of documents 
— from photos to construction plans and reports — show the history of 
Atlanta’s transit growth from the 1840s to today.

The $500,000 will help the museum digitize and preserve the collection. 
Southern Railway merged with Norfolk & Western in 1982 to create the 
present-day Norfolk Southern Railway.

NS Chairman, President and CEO James Squires said the archives belong to 
Atlanta because of the history they represent.

"The history of Southern Railway is inseparable from the history of this 
region," Squires said in a press release.

Decades of rail history is ultimately the reason Atlanta has grown into 
the city it is today, said Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the 
Atlanta History Center.

"This collection is crucial to uncovering the many stories behind the 
city's transformation," Hale said. "We're excited to have the 
opportunity to preserve this history and make it publicly available for 
students and teachers, researchers, and those who are simply interested 
in Atlanta."

We can only hope that NS will donate the N&W archives to our NWHS. -- 
Gordon Hamilton


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