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JULY 5, 1893 ***TINY 2 11/16 INCH***  ~THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY~ (AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY PHILADELPHIA) ... (NUMBER 11784) .00 IN GOLD COIN {{{GEORGE WASHINGTON VIGNETTE}}} BOND COUPON!
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Norfolk and Western Railway
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Norfolk and Western Railway
Overview
Headquarters
Roanoke, Virginia
Reporting mark
NW
Locale
Virginia
,
Maryland
,
North Carolina
,
West Virginia
,
Kentucky
, and
Ohio
; after the 1960s mergers, also
Illinois
,
Indiana
,
Iowa
,
Michigan
,
Missouri
,
New York
, and
Pennsylvania
Dates of operation
1870–1982
Successor
Norfolk Southern
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft
8
+
1
⁄
2
in
(
1,435 mm
)
standard gauge
Previous gauge
5 ft
(
1,524 mm
) (?)
Length
1956: 2,132 miles (3,431 kilometers);1970: 7,595 miles (12,223 kilometers)
Norfolk and Western magazine ad with system map, 1948
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. Its motto was "Precision Transportation"; it had a variety of nicknames, including "King Coal" and "British Railway of America".
The N&W was famous for manufacturing its own
steam locomotives
, which were built at the
Roanoke Shops
, as well as its own
hopper cars
. After 1960, N&W was the last major Class I railroad using steam locomotives; the last remaining Y class 2-8-8-2s would eventually be retired between 1964 and 1965.
In December 1959, the N&W merged with the
Virginian Railway
(reporting mark VGN), a longtime rival in the Pocahontas coal region. By 1970, other mergers with the
Nickel Plate Road
and
Wabash
formed a system that operated 7,595 miles (12,223 km) of road on 14,881 miles (23,949 km) of track from North Carolina to New York and from Virginia to Iowa.
In 1980, the N&W merged its business operation with those of the
Southern Railway
, another profitable carrier to create the
Norfolk Southern Corporation
holding company
. The N&W and the Southern Railway continued as separate railroads operating under a single holding company.
In 1990, the Southern Railway was renamed Norfolk Southern Railway and the holding company transferred the Norfolk & Western Railway to the control of the newly renamed company.
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