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The Norfolk and Western Railway (NW), a.k.a. N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, its motto was "Precision Transportation"! Known as "King Coal," in 1986, N&W merged with Southern Railway to form today's Norfolk Southern Railway. The N&W was famous for manufacturing its own steam locomotives, built at the Roanoke Shops, as well as its own hopper cars. After 1960, N&W was the last major Class I railroad using steam locomotives. In 1959, the N&W merged with the Virginian Railway (VGN), a longtime rival in the Pocahontas coal region. By 1970, other mergers with the Nickel Plate Road and Wabash formed a system that operated 7,595 miles of road on 14,881 miles of track from North Carolina to New York and from Virginia to Iowa. In 1980, the N&W merged business with Southern Railway, to create the Norfolk Southern Corporation, while operating as separate railroads. In 1982, the Southern Railway was renamed as the Norfolk Southern Railway, and N&W to it's control.
