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FAMILY TREES OF THE NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY
1.Nickel Plate Road
A.New York,Chicago & St. Louis RR 523 miles
b.Lake Erie & Western Railroad, 707 miles
1.Fremont and Indiana
2.Peru and Indianapolis
3.Northern Ohio
C.Clover Leaf
1.Toledo,St. Louis & Western
D.Wheeling and Lake Erie 500 miles
1.Carroll County Railroad
2.Cleveland,Canton & Southern
3.Cleveland Belt Terminal
4.Zanesville Belt and Terminal
5.Lorain & West Virginia
6.Adena Railroad
7.Bellaire & Valley Jct.
2.WABASH RAILROAD
A.Northern Cross (Sangamon & Morgan RR)
B.Sangamon & Morgan (Great Western)
C.Toledo & Illinois RR
D.Lake Erie,Wabash&St. Louis RR
E.Eel River Railroad
F.St.Louis, Kansas City & Northern
3.NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY
A.Southside Railroad
B.City Point Railroad
C.Norfolk and Petersburg
D.Shenandoah Valley Railroad
E.Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
F.Lynchburg and Durham
G.Roanoke and Southern
H.Virginia Creeper
I.Scioto Valley
J.Cincinnati,Portsmouth & Virginia
K.Virginian Railway
L.Chesapeake Western Railway
M.Norfolk,Franklin & Danville
PEOPLE WHO MADE IT ALL WORK
The Norfolk and Western Railway had thousands of men and women endeavoring to make the railroad the Route of Precision
Transportation and they succeeded. The following men who sat in the President's Chair provided the necessary leadership to
make the Norfolk and Western the great railroad it was and transition it from a Pocahontas Region coal carrier to a significent
Midwestern/Northeastern railroad that handled freight of all kinds, though passenger service provided the glamour side of
railroad operations. Here are the men who headed the N&W over the years:
1.William Mahone
2.George F. Tyler
3.Henry Fink
4.Frederick J. Kimball
5.Lucius E. Johnson
6.Nicholas D. Maher
7.William J. Jenks
8.Arthur C. Needles
9.Robert B. 'Racehorse'Smith
10.Stuart T. Saunders (later headed PRR and PC)
11.Herman Pevler (ex Wabash chief)
12.John P. Fishwick
13.Robert B. Claytor (launched 611 excursion program)
Of these N&W Presidents, Bob Claytor is best remembered for his role of restoring J-Class steamer 611 to operation
and launching an excursion program for this beautiful locomotive.
PASSENGER OPERATIONS
While the Norfolk and Western is generally thought of as a coal hauling railroad serving the Pocahontas region, it did,however
endeavor to provide residents of its service area with good passenger service connecting the communities served by the N&W
to the outside world. Its main line service consisted of three pairs of trains operating between Norfolk,Virginia and Cincinnati,Ohio.
The first of the three feature trains, The Pocahontas, made its first run on November 21,1926. This was followed by The Cavalier,
which served Virginia, in 1928. The last of the three feature trains to grace N&W's mainline, The Powhatan Arrow, made
its debut in April, 1946. When the Norfolk and Western absorbed the Nickel Plate Road and leased the Wabash Railroad in October,1964,
the addition of these two railroads into the N&W system added a relatively extensive passenger network to N&W's own
passenger service. Condensed timetables for these services are shown here in, all taken from public timetables dated October
25,1964.
CONDENSED TIMETABLES OF N&W PASSENGER SERVICES OF 1964
Table 1. Ex NKP Buffalo -Chicago via Fort Wayne
5 Stations 6
203o Lv Buffalo, NY Ar 1220
2200 Erie,PA 1035
2242 ar Conneaut,OH Lv 1000
2248 Lv Conneaut,OH Ar 0935
0015 Ar Cleveland,OH Lv 0830
0045 Lv Cleveland,OH Ar 0810
0211 Ar Bellevue,OH Lv 0633
0214 Lv Bellevue,OH Ar 0630
0455 Ar Fort Wayne,IN Lv 0339
0515 Lv Fort Wayne,IN AR 0341
0740 Ar Chicago,IL Lv 2330
Table 2. Detroit-Fort Wayne-St. Louis (Wabash)
3 1 Stations 2 4
2110 0730 Lv Detroit,MI Ar 0655 2035
2345 0955 Ar Fort Wayne,IN Lv 0350 1753
0010 1008 Lv Fort Wayne,IN Ar 0330 1738
0123 1059 Wabash,IN 0223 1646
1240 1019 Ar Peru,IN cst Lv 0106 1528
1254 1026 Lv Peru,IN Ar 0056 1523
0510 1345 AR Decatur,IL Lv 2105 1156
0527 1405 Lv Decatur,IL Ar 2055 1146
0810 1655 Ar St. Louis,MO Lv 1850 0910
Table 3. Chicago-Decatur-Detroit (ex Wabash RR)
111 121 Stations 112 124
1055 1645 Lv Chicago, IL Ar 1450 2130
1229 1814 Ar Forrest Lv 1324 1950
1229 1814 Lv Forrest Ar 1324 1950
1355 1929 Ar Decatur Lv 1151 1830
1405 1934 Lv Decatur,IL Ar 1146 1827
1535 2102 Edwardsville 1014 1703
1351 2119 Granite City,IL 1001 1650
1655 2225 Ar St.Louis Lv 0910 1600
Table4. St.Louis-Council Bluffs
211 Stations 214
1830 Lv St. Louis,MO Ar 0855
2131 Centralia 0533
2235 Ar Moberly,MO Lv 0500
2240 Lv Moberly,MO Ar 0425
0330 Ar Stanberry,MO Lv 0045
0335 Lv Stanberry,MO Ar 0045
0810 Ar Council Bluffs Lv 2045
Table 5.Norfolk-Cincinnati via Original N&W
21-15 3 25 Stations 26 16 4
2135 1305 0530 L Norfolk,Va A 0130 0705 1710
2330 1445 0705 Ar Petersburg L 2345 0510 1510
0005 1500 0705 Lv Petersburg A 2345 0435 1500
0255 1730 0925 Ar Lynchburg L 2125 0155 1231
0335 1735 0925 Lv Lynchburg A 2125 0135 1226
0500 1845 1035 Ar Roanoke,VA L 2020 0025 1120
0615 1905 1045 Lv Roanoke,VA A 2010 2330 1100
0930 2150 1315 Ar Bluefield L 1740 2040 0825
---- 2200 1325 Lv Bluefield A 1730 ----- 0815
---- 0050 1615 Ar Williamson L 1425 ----- 0522
---- 0105 1620 Lv Williamson A 1420 ----- 0507
---- 0345 1905 Ar Portsmouth L 1130 ---- 0210
---- 0405 2040 Lv Portsmouth A 1125 ----- 0150
---- 0655 2155 Ar Cincinnati L 0845 ----- 2315
Notes for Table 5:
1. 3-4 The Pocahontas
2. 25-26 The Powhatan Arrow
3. 15-16 The Cavalier
Table 2.
1-4 Wabash Cannonball
3.St.Louis Limited
2.Detroit Limited
Table 1.
5 City of Chicago
6.City of Cleveland
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