Series XVIII: Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk Terminal and Yards

This series consists of photographs of the Norfolk and Western's facilities in Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 39, are referred to by the letter B in testimony, and were taken by S.G. Vick. Mr. Vick was employed as an engineer in yard service by the N&W and was the local chairman for the BLFE. The N&W was a class I railroad operating in the southern United States. The N&W operated both passenger and freight service, but was known for its routes between the coal fields in West Virginia and the ports and coal piers of Lambert's Point, Virginia. In 1959, the N&W merged with the Virginian Railway (VGN), expanding their trackage in the south and Mid-Atlantic States. The photographs in this series document the extensive yard facilities of the N&W in and around Lambert's Point, Virginia. This series also includes photos of VGN locomotives and rolling stock, and is also the only facility to be photographed from an airplane, giving the viewer a real sense of the scope of these facilities.