Annual Reports - was "Re: N&W Industrial and Shippers Guide"

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Matt

The Society digitized all the N&W Railway Annual Reports from 1896 to 1981 some years ago. The 1881-1896 reports and Virginian reports are not yet ready

https://www.nwhs.org/commissary/cd.html

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Ken Miler

> On Aug 28, 2025, at 5:01 PM, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> The beginning of the 1916 Industrial Shippers Guide gives a nice summary of improvements to the road in the decade or two before 1916. Those descriptions were written in a manner that seems similar to annual reports. 
> 
> Which prompted a question; are Annual Reports for the N&W available online on Archive.org, Google books, or other?  Five or more years ago I found a report on one of the Circleville industries I had an interest in - and it was a very nice source of information. 
> 
> Matt Goodman
> Columbus, Ohio
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2025, at 8:41 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> I have doubts. Why is it showing a modern cover and has a published date of 2023?  There are a lot on ebay where someone has taken a public domain scan and printed in hardcopy selling it. Nothing illegal, but if it’s public domain, you can probably find a pdf in google books.  like this one dated 1916.
>> 
>> https://books.google.com/books/about/Industrial_and_Shippers_Guide.html?id=dDsuAAAAYAAJ
>> 
>> Without better detail, I would pass on it.  
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from Dave Bott's iPhone
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>>> On Aug 25, 2025, at 4:39 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>>> Is anyone familiar with this publication?  I presume it would have been published annually...
>>> 
>>> https://www.ebay.com/p/22064416678
>>> 
>>> Jim Brewer
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