The NorfolkandWesternRailway (reporting mark NW), commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between...
merger of the NorfolkandWesternRailwayand Southern Railway. The company operates 19,420 route miles (31,250 km) in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia...
and diesel locomotives along with a few compressed natural gas (CNG) locomotives. Steam locomotives are operated on mountain railwaysand on heritage...
and tried large steam locomotives before turning to an alternative already in use by one of its neighboring competitors, Norfolk & WesternRailway: a...
steam locomotives built locomotives in their shops. Notable examples include the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Mount Clare Shops, Norfolk & Western's Roanoke...
Listof Peckett and Sons railwaylocomotives, plus those from Fox Walker, both built at the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol. Despite heavy work and poor maintenance...
wipers of the Chicago and North Western Railroad cleaning one of the 4-8-4 "Northern" H-class steam locomotives, Clinton, Iowa, 1943 C&NW railway station...
They were pursued by Confederate forces at first on foot, and later on a succession oflocomotives, including The Texas, for 87 miles (140 km). Because the...
the NorfolkandWesternRailway (N&W) in 1964, the Wabash company continued to exist on paper until the N&W merged into the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)...
32722°W / 39.85917; -75.32722 Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) was an American manufacturer ofrailwaylocomotives from 1825 to 1951. Originally located...
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway: London and South WesternRailway (LSWR) and Midland Railway. 101 miles (163 km) operated, with its own locomotivesand rolling...
is a series of diesel-electric locomotives produced by the US company Electro-Motive Diesel. This locomotive family is an extension and improvisation...
Valley Railway is a 15 in (381 mm) minimum gauge visitors' attraction in Norfolk, England. It was created on the original disused full-gauge bed of a defunct...
greater than any individual locomotive uses, so electric locomotives can have a higher power output than diesel locomotivesand they can produce even higher...
Nickel Plate Road and several other midwestern carriers were merged into the larger NorfolkandWesternRailway (N&W). The goal of the N&W expansion was...
larger steam locomotives in 1985. The locomotive returned to mainline excursion service in 1990 until 1994, when Southern's successor, Norfolk Southern discontinued...
articulated locomotives to below 30 or 40 miles per hour. A notable exception to this was to be found in later iterations ofNorfolk & Western Y-class 2-8-8-2s...