1907 - New Depot at Norton

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I don't have the date that the joint L&N/N&W/IRR brick passenger station
in Norton was demolished. My research for my article did reveal that
after the L&N dropped passenger service to Norton in 1953, N&W trains
5&6 (Bluefield to Norton and back) used the L&N/N&W wood freight station
just to the east of downtown Norton instead of the brick station. So the
passenger station stood until at least that date. 

Photos of both stations are in the VPI collection and should be
available on-line.


Paul Mandelkern
Winter Park, FL



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I don't have the ARROW, but when approximately was the station
demolished?

J. Kelling


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The joint N&W/L&N/IRR passenger station at Norton is no longer standing.
Photos of that station and the N&W/L&N freight station (later also used
as a passenger station) as well as a description of N&W operations in
the Norton area can be found in the article Bucky Wilson and I wrote on
the Clinch Valley Line and printed in The Arrow, Vol. 20, issues 2, 3,
and 4 (March/April, May/June and July/August of 2004).

Paul Mandelkern
Winter Park, FL



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Is the Norton depot still standing? Can anyone provide a picture or
drawing? Thanks, Wally Edwards Augusta, Ga. 


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Norton, Va., March 14

    Work on the new union passenger depot for Norton will be begun in 
a few days. The Norfolk and Western and Louisville and Nashville 
railroads have agreed upon plans for the building and the Norfolk and 
Western Company has appropriated the money for the work. This is a 
much needed improvement, as the present accommodations are almost a 
disgrace to the town, or to the railroad company rather.
    The contract has been let for the grading of the Interstate 
Railroad from Blackwood to Norton, and the work will be begun at 
once. This road will connect Norton with Blackwood, Applachia, Osaka 
and Stonega, and a branch already constructed known as the Roaring 
Fork Railroad, extending several miles up Roaring Fork of Powell's 
river, is now in operation connecting Blackwood with the new mining 
and coking town of Roaring Fork.
    It is believed that the Interstate road will be a part of the 
Southern Railway system, connecting at Appalachia, as it does, with 
the Virginia and Southwestern Railroad, now part of that system. This 
new road will give Norton a southern outlet, opening up a southern 
market for the coal, coke and timber of the great Wise county fields.


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