The Norfolk and Western Railway was a Class I railroad headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, founded in 1870 as the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad and renamed Norfolk and Western in 1881. Known by the nicknames King Coal and the British Railway of America, it was noted for manufacturing its own steam locomotives at the Roanoke Shops. In 1980 the company merged its business operations with those of the Southern Railway to create the Norfolk Southern Corporation, and by 1982 the Southern Railway had been renamed Norfolk Southern Railway and taken over N&W's operations, ending its independent existence.
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Source Norfolk and Western 1218 (Wikipedia)Lead, builderQuote, Lead, builder
It was built in June 1943 by N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia to haul both fast passenger and freight trains around the N&W system.
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Norfolk and Western 1240 was a four-cylinder simple articulated 2-6-6-4 type steam locomotive, built in May 1950 by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as part of the N&W's class "A" fleet of fast freight locomotives.
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The Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) built it in 1942 at its East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, as the second member of the N&W's Y6a class.
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Norfolk and Western 2174 was a Y6b class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive, built by the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) own Roanoke Shops, in 1948.
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Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.
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The Norfolk and Western "A" was a class of 43 2-6-6-4 simple articulated steam locomotives built by the Norfolk and Western's (N&W) Roanoke Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, between 1936 and 1950 and operated until the late 1950s.
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Source Norfolk and Western classes Y6, Y6a and Y6b (Wikipedia)Lead, builderQuote, Lead, builder
A total of 81 were built by the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) between 1936 and 1952.
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inception: 1896
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dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1982
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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.
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