Southern Railway Company

• American

Southern Railway Company was established by Drexel, Morgan and Company in 1894 from a combination of various railways in the American South, including Richmond and Danville Railroad and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.

Upon its founding in 1894, the Southern Railway Company established its headquarters in Washington at 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in a building that had been constructed in 1871 as the offices for the National Republican newspaper and later became the offices of the Richmond and Danville Railroad. This first Southern Railway Building, long a landmark on Pennsylvania Avenue, suffered a major fire in 1916, resulting in its demolition a few weeks later. A new building was erected to replace the charred ruins, but this building was demolished ten years later when the federal government acquired the property as part of its plans for the Federal Triangle.