Norfolk & Western Railway: Pocahontas Coal Carrier

352 pp. Authoritative history of the Norfolk & Western Railroad and The Virginia Railway with emphasis on motive power. Covers the South Side Railroad, the Virginia & Tennessee, the Norfolk & Petersburg, the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio, tunnels and bridges, shops and terminals, steam locomotives, passenger and freight trains, electrification, and a pictorial supplement of the Big Sandy & Cumberland Railroad and the collieries served by the N&W. Illustrated with an amazing array of black and white photos of every aspect of operations, including the steamships, coal facilities, and narrow gauge subsidiaries. With maps and schematic diagrams of locomotives.