Norfolk Southern #3288 Acrylic Octagon Award

From www.railphotoexpress.biz Norfolk Southern #3288 an SD-40-2, Built as Southern Railway 3288W 1n 1978 It was Built by EMD and is rated at 3000 HP It has a high nose that is typical of Southern Railway Locomotives. It is shown crossing the Lehigh River from Allentown Pennsylvania to Bethlehem Pennsylvania in April 2006. The Southern Railway (reporting mark SOU) was a US class 1 railroad. It 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. It was placed under control of the Norfolk Southern Corporation, along with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W), in 1982, and was renamed Norfolk Southern Railway in 1990.