after the 1982 merger with the Norfolk and Western to form the Norfolk Southern, through increased operating costs and concerns ended the program in 1994. Norfolk Southern reinstated the steam program on a limited basis from 2011 to 2015, as the 21st Century Steam program. In the early 2000s, a loop of former Southern Railway right-of-way encircling central Atlanta neighborhoods was acquired and is now the BeltLine trail. Passenger trains Along with its famed (Southern) Crescent and Southerner, the Southern's other named passenger trains included: Aiken-Augusta Special Airline Belle Asheville Special Birmingham Special Carolina Special Fast Mail "Old 97" Florida Sunbeam Goldenrod Kansas City–Florida Special Land of the Sky Special Memphis Special New Yorker Peach Queen Pelican Piedmont Limited Ponce de Leon Queen and Crescent Limited Royal Palm Skyland Special Sunnyland Tennessean The Southern Railway also handled ticket sales and operations for subsidiary railroads, such as: The Nancy Hanks (operated by Central of Georgia Railway) The Man O' War (operated by Central of Georgia Railway) The Southern Railway also participated in the operation of the City of Miami, which was operated by the Southern Railway over the Central of Georgia trackage from Birmingham, Alabama, to Albany, Georgia, where it traded off with the Seaboard Coast Line until its discontinuation in 1971. When Amtrak took over most intercity rail service in 1971, Southern initially opted out of turning over its passenger routes to the new organization. However, it shared operation of its flagship train, the New Orleans–New York Southern Crescent, with Amtrak. Under a longstanding haulage agreement inherited from Penn Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad, Amtrak carried the train north of Washington. By the late 1970s, growing revenue losses and equipment-replacement expenses convinced Southern it could not continue in the passenger business. It handed full control of its passenger routes to Amtrak in 1979. Roads owned by the Southern Railway Alabama Great Southern Railway (AGS) Albany and Northern Railway (A&N) Atlantic & Eastern Carolina Railway (A&EC) Birmingham Terminal Company Camp Lejeune Railroad Company Carolina and Northwestern Railway (C&NW) Central of Georgia Railway (CofG)(CG) Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNO&TP) Chattanooga Station Company Chattanooga Traction Company (CTC) Georgia and Florida Railroad (G&F) Georgia Ashburn Sylvester and Camilla Railway (GAS&C) Georgia Northern Railway (GANO) – acquired in 1967 Georgia Southern and Florida Railway (GS&F) Interstate Railroad (INT) Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad (K&IT) Sievern and Knoxville Railroad Live Oak Perry and