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Southeast Supply Header

Southeast Supply Header (SESH) is an interstate natural gas pipeline from the Perryville Hub in Louisiana across Mississippi to Mobile County, Alabama, in service since 2008.

Southeastern (train operating company)

Southeastern, the trading name of SE Trains Limited, is a publicly owned British train operator serving London, Kent, and East Sussex, and running Britain's only domestic high-speed rail service.

Southeastern Anatolia Project

The Southeastern Anatolia Project (Turkish: Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, GAP) is Turkey's regional development program for the Euphrates and Tigris basins, begun in the 1970s and built around 22 dams and large-scale irrigation.

Southern Airways Flight 242

Southern Airways Flight 242 was a DC-9 that crashed at New Hope, Georgia, on April 4, 1977, after both engines failed in a severe thunderstorm, killing 72 people.

Southern Airways Flight 49

Southern Airways Flight 49 was a Memphis-to-Miami DC-9 flight hijacked by three fugitives at Birmingham, Alabama, in November 1972; the 30-hour ordeal ended in Havana and prompted universal US passenger screening.

Southern Airways Flight 932

Southern Airways Flight 932, also known as the Marshall plane crash, was a 1970 crash near Huntington, West Virginia, that killed all 75 aboard, including the Marshall University football team.

Southern Algeria Gas Transmission Network

The Southern Algeria Gas Transmission Network is the name under which the Global Energy Monitor tracks two operating gas pipelines in the Algerian Sahara, both owned by Sonatrach.

Southern California Edison

Southern California Edison, also known as SoCal Edison or the Southern California Edison Company, is an investor-owned electric utility and Edison International subsidiary serving over 15 million Californians across roughly 50,000 square miles.

Southern Company

Southern Company is an Atlanta-based holding company, formed in 1947, whose vertically integrated electric utilities in the Southeast and natural gas businesses serve about 9 million customers nationwide.

Southern Copper

Southern Copper Corporation is an integrated copper mining, smelting, and refining company with four large open-pit mines in Peru and Mexico, controlled by Grupo México.

Southern Crossing (San Francisco Bay)

The Southern Crossing is a proposed automobile bridge across San Francisco Bay south of the Bay Bridge, first planned in 1946, proposed over a dozen times, and never built.

Southern Kuzbass Coal Company

Southern Kuzbass Coal Company (Южный Кузбасс) is a Russian coal mining company in Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast – Kuzbass, owned 96 percent by Mechel-Mining and producing coking and thermal coal.

Southern Lights pipeline

The Southern Lights pipeline, also known as Enbridge Line 13, is a 2,560 km Enbridge pipeline carrying diluent from Manhattan, Illinois, to Edmonton for blending with Alberta oil sands bitumen, opened in 2010.

Southern Natural Gas Pipeline

The Southern Natural Gas pipeline (SNG, SONAT) is an interstate natural gas pipeline in the southeastern United States, in service since 1929 and owned by Kinder Morgan and Southern Company.

Southern Pacific 4294

Southern Pacific 4294 is a 4-8-8-2 cab forward articulated steam locomotive built by Baldwin in 1944, the only surviving Southern Pacific cab forward, on display at the California State Railroad Museum.

Southern Pacific 4449

Southern Pacific 4449, known as the Daylight, is a streamlined 1941 steam locomotive, the only surviving GS-4, that pulled Southern Pacific's San Francisco to Los Angeles passenger trains.

Southern Pacific Railroad

The Southern Pacific Railroad, chartered in California in 1865, grew into a transcontinental system spanning the Pacific Northwest to New Orleans and merged into Union Pacific in 1996.

Southern Pine Lumber Co. 28

Southern Pine Lumber Co. 28 is a preserved 2-8-0 steam locomotive built by Baldwin in 1917 for the United States Army, now operating on the Texas State Railroad.

Southern Railway zone

The Southern Railway zone, also known as SR zone, is a zone of Indian Railways headquartered in Chennai, formed on 14 April 1951 as the first zone after independence.

Southern Rhodesia in World War II

Southern Rhodesia in World War II covers the British colony's (now Zimbabwe) role in the Allied effort, including the Rhodesia Air Training Group, which trained 8,235 Allied aircrew.

Southern section of the Overland Telegraph Line

The southern section of the Overland Telegraph Line was the roughly 500-mile (800 km) stretch from Port Augusta contracted to Edward Meade Bagot, completed between 1870 and 1872.

Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company

The Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company, formally the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, was a private London water supplier formed by an 1845 merger, remembered for John Snow's 1854 cholera investigation.

Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines is a Dallas, Texas-based low-cost airline founded by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher in 1971, whose all-Boeing 737, point-to-point model became the template for budget carriers worldwide.

Southwest Airlines fleet

The Southwest Airlines fleet is the all-Boeing 737 jet fleet flown by Southwest Airlines since 1971, apart from a few Boeing 727s; it numbered 803 aircraft as of December 31, 2025.

Southwest Airlines Flight 1248

Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a passenger flight that overran the runway landing at Chicago Midway in snow on December 8, 2005, killing a boy in a car.

Southwest Airlines Flight 1380

Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a domestic passenger flight that suffered an engine fan blade failure on April 17, 2018, killing one passenger before landing safely in Philadelphia.

Southwest Chief

The Southwest Chief is a daily Amtrak long-distance train covering 2,265 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff, successor to the Santa Fe Super Chief.

Southwest Florida International Airport

Southwest Florida International Airport, also called Fort Myers Airport, is a commercial airport in Fort Myers, Florida, opened in 1983 and handling a record 11 million passengers in 2025.

Southwest Gas

Southwest Gas Corporation is a natural gas utility founded in 1931 and headquartered in Las Vegas, serving about 2.26 million customers in Arizona, Nevada, and California.

Southwest Palace at Kalhu

Southwest Palace at Kalhu (Nimrud): an unfinished 7th-century BCE Assyrian royal palace in the citadel's southwest corner, attributed to Esarhaddon; distinct from Sennacherib's larger Southwest Palace at Nineveh, and noted for its columned halls and reused orthostats.