Roanoke Locomotive Shops And The Norfolk Western Railroad

Author : Wayne McKinney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467121118
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roanoke Locomotive Shops and the Norfolk & Western Railroad written by Wayne McKinney and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of the steam locomotive Roanoke Machine Works played a key part. Take a look at this important economic center of the New South. Roanoke Shops has been an indispensable part of the Roanoke Valley and the Magic City for more than 125 years. Founded in 1881 as an independent company, Roanoke Machine Works built new locomotives and cars for the Shenandoah Valley and Norfolk & Western Railroads. Situated between the picturesque Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains, the facility caused an economic boom in the nearby village of Big Lick and the surrounding area. By 1891, Big Lick had become Roanoke and had emerged as one of the most important economic centers in the New South. Today, Roanoke Shops employs skilled craftsmen who provide the highest-quality overhauls and repairs to diesel locomotives. This book takes a look into its history, particularly at production during that exciting and enchanting era of the steam locomotive.

Author : C. Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439637768
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norfolk and Western Railway Stations and Depots written by C. Nelson Harris and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738568522
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norfolk and Western Railway written by Nelson Harris and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 15 postcards of historical scenes of the Norfolk and Western Railway.

Author : E. F. Pat Striplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norfolk and Western written by E. F. Pat Striplin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norfolk and Western Magazine written by Norfolk and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Layman Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615116648
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norfolk and Western Class J written by Kenneth Layman Miller and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheree Scarborough
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540224552
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western written by Sheree Scarborough and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.

Author : Scarborough, Sheree
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625850204
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke written by Scarborough, Sheree and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.

Author : William E. Warden
Publisher : TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN 13 : 9780962200366
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norfolk & Western written by William E. Warden and published by TLC Publishing (VA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norfolk & Western railroad was Americas last holdout for steam - in 1954 every locomotive on its roster was steam powered. Yet, by 1960, every N&W train was diesel powered. This is the amazing story of the American railroads switch to diesel locomotives as told through the history of the Norfolk & Western. Warden tells how and why they switched to diesel, identifies N&W steam locomotives, the trains to which they were assigned, and the diesel locomotives that took their place.

Author : Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report, Norfolk and Western Railway Company ... written by Norfolk and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: