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  2. Roanoke FD responded to structure fire in Downtown Roanoke - AOL

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    UPDATE 9/30 5:21 P.M. ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – According to RFD, crews were dispatched to a building on the 200 block of Jefferson Street in Downtown Roanoke. ... WFXR News will update you with ...

  3. Roanoke Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.

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  5. Norfolk and Western 611 - Wikipedia

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    A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.

  6. Norfolk and Western Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Roanoke Shops continued to build and repair rolling stock until 2020 when Norfolk Southern closed them, ending 139 years of operations. [4] To bolster the Roanoke locomotive department, in 1916 the N&W added a large terminal (one full-circle roundhouse and two half-circle roundhouses), car shops, and yard at Shaffers Crossing, west of downtown.

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  8. Cedar train wreck - Wikipedia

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    The Cedar train wreck occurred on the night of January 23, 1956, when the Norfolk and Western (N&W) Pocahontas passenger train derailed at more than 50 mph (80 km/h) along the Tug River near Cedar, West Virginia. The accident killed the engineer and injured 51 passengers and nine crew members.

  9. Toddler killed, 2 injured, in Dare County fiery crash - AOL

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    DARE COUNTY, N.C. (WAVY) — A 2-year-old child has died and a man is in critical condition following a fiery crash on the Virginia Dare Memorial Bridge Thursday morning, an officer with the North ...