Norfolk & Western Railway Home Page

This page is under heavy construction.

The Norfolk & Western Railway has its roots in pre-Civil War Virginia, when three different railroads were built to connect the hinterlands with the Port of Norfolk. The N&W still exists as an integral part of Norfolk Southern Corporation. Between the 1850s and the present, the company went through a number of changes, mergers, and expansions.

These pages will cover the N&W up to the merger with the Southern Railway to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation. The pages will include limited information about the railroads that the N&W obtained in the 1964 merger that created the "mode n" N&W -- The Nickel Plate, the Wabash, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia, the Akron, Canton & Youngstown, and the Sandusky Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Shawsville Station Deed

Cowan Tower

The Wayward Virginian Caboose

Norfolk & Western Railway Company is no more!

The Fate of the 1218

A Visit to an Interlocking Tower from the August, 1930, edition of the N&W Magazine.

The article relates the experience of the operator at Bluestone Junction on the Pocahontas Division west of Bluefield, W.Va.

Table of Elevations from an 1886 letter to Frederick J. Kimball.

Classic Engines and Historic Paint Schemes

Divisions of the N&W (incomplete)

Norfolk Division

Shenandoah Division

Radford Division

Pocahontas Division

Moberly Division

Scioto Division

Lake Erie Division

Fort Wayne Division

Muncie Division

Decatur Division

Pittsburgh Division

Sources of Information and Related Web Sites

The Norfolk & Western Archives are located in the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. There is also a collection of N&W photographs that was donated by Norfolk Southern from the Photographic Department of the N&W in Roanoke.

The information on this page is the responsibility of Bruce Harper
Last updated: February 18, 2004