Author: Mason Y. CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963325471
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Norfolk and Western's Shenandoah Valley Line
Author: Mason Y. CooperPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963325471
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Norfolk and Western Railway Stations and Depots
Author: C. Nelson HarrisPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738566696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The tracks of the Norfolk and Western Railway snaked through Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and the coalfields of West Virginia. For nearly 100 years, the Norfolk and Western brought freight, passengers, and economic vitality to large cities and rural mining towns. At each stop was the depot or station; some stations were large, architecturally ornate structures that represented the muscular energy and romantic era of this great steam railway with its famed J-class engines. In other places there were small wooden depots that depicted the hard-scrabble life of the mining communities, tucked amid steep mountain valleys that were indelibly shaped by the railway's presence. Today some of those structures remain, while many disappeared when the railway ceased passenger or other service. The Norfolk and Western eventually merged with the Southern Railway, and though the trains of the Norfolk Southern still run along those same lines, they simply pass by where they used to stop many years ago.
Corporate History, Shenandoah Valley Railway Company
Author: Shenandoah Valley RailroadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Predecessors of the Norfolk and Western Railway
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230593944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Shenandoah Valley Railroad, Virginian Railway, Wabash Railroad, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Southside Railroad, Illinois Terminal Railroad, Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, Little Saw Mill Run Railroad, Chesapeake Western Railway, West Side Belt Railroad, Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad, Virginia-Carolina Railway, Big Stony Railway, Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway, Big Sandy, East Lynn and Guyan Railroad, New River, Holston and Western Railroad, Cincinnati and Eastern Railway, City Point Railroad. Excerpt: Shenandoah Valley Railroad was a line completed on June 19, 1882 extending down the Shenandoah Valley from Hagerstown, Maryland USA through the West Virginia panhandle into Virginia to reach Roanoke, Virginia and a connection with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). The development of this railroad had considerable backing from the Pennsylvania Railroad. On September 1890 it went into bankruptcy and was reorganized as the Shenandoah Valley Railway. Then in December 1890, it became part of N&W. Today the tracks are a major artery of the Norfolk Southern system. South of Harrisonburg, Virginia, a former part of the Norfolk Southern System a few miles west was a parallel line originally called the Valley Railroad. It was built in the late 19th century by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a fierce competitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The line was purchased in 1942 by the Chesapeake Western Railway. A portion extending northward from Staunton, Virginia in Augusta County and Rockingham County became a new short-line railroad formed late in the 20th century by several major shippers. The historic name of the once rival was adopted for the current privately-owned intrastate...
Norfolk and Western Railway
Author: Nelson HarrisPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738515274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
For a century, the Norfolk and Western Railway operated as one of the greatest transportation companies in the southeastern United States. From developing the coal fields of West Virginia to accommodating passengers aboard its famous Powhaten Arrow and Pocahontas lines, the N&W was the last major railroad to abandon the steam engine. The story of the N&W is a story about people-a story of the tens of thousands of people who worked in the shops and aboard the trains, sold the tickets and moved the freight, laid the track and managed corporate affairs. Images of Rail: Norfolk and Western Railway celebrates that heritage through the lens of some 200 archival photographs. From images of the muscular Class J steam locomotive to the lone agent of the rural depot, these photographs have been harvested from the N&W's files at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The archival material provides the reader the rare opportunity to rummage through the N&W's attic. See the engine crews at the turn of the last century, the shop gangs, freight agents, roundhouses, stations, and iron horses of a bygone age. With views of the rugged and, at times, dangerous days of railroading in the late 1800s to the rise of the N&W as a member of America's corporate elite, these pictures convey the railway's storied history.
Corporate History--Shenandoah Valley Railway Company
Author: Virginia Summer Resorts Via the Shenandoah Valley Route. Roanoke, Va. Norfolk & Western Railroad
Author: Norfolk and Western Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioner of the State of Virginia
Author: Virginia. Railroad CommissionerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads and state
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Shenandoah Valley Route in Historic Virginia
Author: Norfolk and Western Railway CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
N & W. Ry. Via Norfolk & Western Ry. and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Via
Author: Norfolk and Western Railway CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad trains
Languages : en
Pages :
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