Southern Railway (SOU) - Southern Serves the South - License Plate st. paul

Southern Railway (SOU) - Southern Serves the South - License Plate st. paulSouthern Railway (SOU) Southern Serves the South License Plate 6" x 12" . 025 Gauge Aluminum Includes 4 Mounting Slots & 1 2" Radius Rounded Corners UV Protective coating to Prevent Fading Image is reproduction final product might differ slightly Made in America

decorating the locomotive with a large profile of Santa Claus on the front of the smokebox above the front coupler

The enterprise brought handsome returns

the firm built the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad to carry iron ore from the mines directly to company-owned docks on Lake Superior

Illinois and Gary Indiana

The 35-mile segment from Dante

The SAL emphasized the train's modernness

As the Sesquicentennial of the first railroad in America was approaching

The Pere Marquette Railroad used 1225 in regular service from the locomotive's construction in 1941 until the railroad merged into Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in 1947

A pellet plant was built but ceased operation before 1980

It was primarily a coal hauling and freight railroad

Pickands Mather and Company was formed in 1883

and the railroad looked to extend operations up to the Connecticut Southern Railroad's Hartford Terminal at the north end of the line