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The Norfolk and Western Railway (reporting mark NW), [1] commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence.
The Norfolk and Western was the 3rd railroad to span the central Appalachian Mountains, reaching the Ohio River in 1892, about 4 years after the Chesapeake & Ohio. Both railroads followed the Ohio River to Cincinnati OH. The N&W also built a line north to Columbus OH. Cincinnati and Columbus remained the N&W’s two western terminuses for many ...
The N&W was the acme of coal railroading, and longer than any other coal road — well into the late 1950s — it burned in its locomotives what it hauled in its hopper cars.
An N&W passenger train speeds between Roanoke and Christiansburg, Virginia. The N&W provided extensive passenger service through southwestern and southeastern Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley, West Virginia, and into parts of North Carolina. With…
The Norfolk & Western Railway was a major force in opening the coalfields of southern West Virginia. The N&W was the result of an 1881 merger between the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad, running from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee, and the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
The Norfolk and Western Railway (reporting mark NW), commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence.
The Norfolk & Western Railway was established through a reorganization of the bankrupt Norfolk and Western Railroad in 1896, the latter company itself having arisen from the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad, a successor to the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad.
Around 1960, N&W was the last major American railroad to convert from steam to diesel motive power. Beginning in 1959, a series of mergers brought the Virginian, Wasbash, Akron Canton & Youngstown, and other mid-western regionals into an expanded N&W system that totalled 7500 miles at its peak.
Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives.
The Norfolk and Western Railway, often referred to as N&W, was an important railroad company headquartered in Virginia. First started as a regional railroad that ran locally within Virginia,...