Its more notable acquisitions include the Albemarle & Pantego Railroad (extending further south into North Carolina); the Norfolk, Virginia Beach & Southern Railroad picked up in 1899 (connecting both Norfolk and Virginia Beach); and the Chesapeake Transit Company in 1904. These...
map of Norfolk, Virginia, and vicinity c. 1900Map of Norfolk, Virginia, and vicinity c. 1900 from the 10th edition of theEncyclopædia Britannica.(more) With subsequent canal and railroad construction, prosperity returned until ayellow feverepidemicstruck in 1855 and killed 10 percent of the ...
Virginia-Based Norfolk Southern Railroad to Trim Capital Expenditures.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)Dinsmore, Christopher
In 1881 the first Norfolk & Western Railroad was formed but fell into bankruptcy and was reorganized as the Norfolk & Western Railway in 1896. With the discovery of coal in western Virginia during the 1880s and subsequent new lines built into the rich southern coal field of West Virginia th...
Beginning Monday, March 22 through the end of the week, Norfolk Southern will replace 3 railroad crossings along several streets in the Wards Corner area from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. The crossings were last replaced in 2011. The work requires full and directional closures with traffic detoured to...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Norfolk Southern railroad delivered 13% greater profit in the fourth quarter even though the amount of cargo it transported declined because it was able to raise rates.
Railroad (SV), Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad (NPB), Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiaries Chesapeake Western Railway (CHW) and Interstate Railroad (INT), North Carolina and Virginia Railroad (NCVA), Virginia Southern Railroad (VSRR) and Winchester and Western Railroad (...
RAILROAD ACCIDENT REPORT - SIDE COLLISION OF NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY'S TRAIN NO. 86 WITH EXTRA 1589 WEST NEAR WELCH, WEST VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER 6... About 8:10 a.m., on September 6, 1980, while operating on the westbound main track, near Welch, West Virginia, eastbound Norfolk...
Norfolk Southern Railroad to Lay Off 55 Signalmen in Virginia, West Virginia.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)Caliri, Lois
LC Railroad maps, 604 Description derived from published bibliography. Map of the southern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, table of distances, and the railroads distinguished by colo...