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Chesapeake Western Railway. Records, 1928-1982.

Title: Records, 1928-1982.

This collection contains all the known extant operating records for the Chesapeake Western Railway Company. During the course of its existence, from 1871 to the early 1980s, it was owned by a number of investors and railroad companies and used a variety of tracks/lines most of which were located in Rockingham and Augusta Counties in Virginia (including at various times, the towns of Elkton, Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Mt. Solon, Staunton, and Stokesville). The railroad's original raison d'etre was for carrying coal, although during its short boom years from around 1901 through the first decade or so, it carried predominately timber and tanbark. The CW originated as a chartered section of the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad. It later was incorporated into the Chesapeake, Shendun, and Western Railroad (later named the Chesapeake & Western Railroad). One of its most prominent owners was W.E.D. Stokes who bought the railroad in 1900 (when it was first named the Tidewater and West Virginia and then later the Chesapeake Western Railway, or CW); another important investor during the 1940s was Don W. Thomas. In 1954 the Norfolk & Western Railroad purchased the CW but the name was retained and it operated as a separate corporation until 1982 when the Norfolk & Western and the Southern Railway Company merged as the Norfolk Southern Corporation. In 1982, a five-alarm fire burned the CW office located in Harrisonburg. Today, the CW, under the control of the NS, serves as the Harrisonburg area's poultry feed supplier.

ArchivalResource: 15 Hollinger boxs and 32 large unboxed volumes (ca. items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39777026 View

Cleveland (Ohio). [Papers regarding the negotiations for the proposed acquisition of Conrail by CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation railways and its impact on Cleveland, Ohio].

Title: [Papers regarding the negotiations for the proposed acquisition of Conrail by CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation railways and its impact on Cleveland, Ohio]. [1997-1998]

ArchivalResource: ca. 45 items : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28-31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43835940 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Norfolk and Western Railroad Company records, 1880-1903.

Title: Norfolk and Western Railroad Company records, 1880-1903.

Contains letters sent to the board, map entitled "Southwest Virginia Mineral Resources and Railway Facilities, C.R. Boyd, C.E., 1883," which shows the mineral deposits of southwestern Virginia and the route of the N & W, reports, petitions, and lists of land holdings.

ArchivalResource: 2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262472990 View

Norfolk Southern Corporation. Records, 1979-1982.

Title: Records, 1979-1982.

Records, 1979-1982, of the Norfolk Southern Corporation, concerning the merger between the Norfolk and Western Railroad and the Southern Railroad companies in 1982. Contain correspondence and memoranda (arranged chronologically, concerning the performance of executives and companies and containing information about company meetings), reports (including annual reports and information about benefit programs), stockholder information, publicity (including photographs, a brochure, and an article about the merger), and miscellaneous items (including route maps).

ArchivalResource: 69 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434124005 View