NS records no longer at VA Tech

[NW Mailing List]

I searched thru the data base. Photos are still there. I wonder if this 
means all originals were returned, while copies were kept on file. Any 
thoughts?

Tom Anson





NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> said:


> I was just looking for some N&W Corporate record info at the VA Tech

> archive site (http://spec.lib.vt.edu/railroad/rrintro.htm) and found this

> notice:

> 

> "The records of the Norfolk & Western and Southern railways, their

> subsidiaries and predecessors have been returned to Norfolk Southern Corp.

> (NS), which is consolidating its historical materials into a corporate

> archive in Atlanta. Under the terms of agreements established in the early

> 1980s between NS and Virginia Tech, the historical records of the Norfolk

> & Western Railway Company and the Southern Railway Company were deposited

> in the University Libraries' Special Collections while NS retained

> ownership of the materials. We are updating our web pages to reflect our

> resources currently available for railroad history and directing inquiries

> to the contact person Archives1 at nscorp.com with questions about materials

> now in the NS corporate archive."

> 

> The pages are shown as being last updated Wednesday, 07-Feb-2007.

> 

> Have I missed something somewhere?  Anyone have any insight?

> 

> David Adams

> 

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Tom Anson