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The Virginia Room Digital Collection includes photographs, oral histories, books, pamphlets and finding aids to items in the Virginia Room. Continue to check back for new additions.

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"Depot, Norfolk & Western Offices and Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, Virginia."

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"Norfolk & Western Railroad Depot, Roanoke, Virginia."

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"Norfolk & Western Station, Roanoke, Virginia."

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"Norfolk & Western Station from Auditorium, Roanoke, Virginia."

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"Roanoke, Virginia - The Star City of the South. This city is headquarters of America's most prosperous railroad, the Norfolk & Western, and located here are its shops and offices. Today, Roanoke is a beautiful city - replete with fine schools and…

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"Norfolk & Western Train Station, Roanoke, Virginia."

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The Norfolk & Western Passenger Station was built in 1907. It is now home to the O. Winston Link Museum and History Museum of Western Virginia.

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The passenger station hosted a prominent visitor on October 19, 1934, when President Franklin Roosevelt came to dedicate the new Veterans’ Hospital. After the ceremony, the President came to Salem where he was escorted by Salem’s mayor and a cadre…

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The N&W Railway donated and created a park near the passenger station in 1933 at College Avenue and 8th Street. The park was one of several that were developed in Salem during that time period.

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Passenger service at the Salem depot ended on April 30, 1965. On that day, YWCA kindergartners boarded the Powhatan Arrow for a trip to Christiansburg. That same year, the N&W donated the station to the town of Salem.

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For many years, Salem had also benefited from passenger service provided by the Virginian Railroad. Virginian passenger service in Salem ended in 1954, five years prior to its merger with the N&W.

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This view shows the early Roanoke passenger station (center),the N&W office building (center right), and the Hotel Roanoke (right).

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Taken from the Roanoke passenger station, this photograph shows the Birmingham Special in the background and the Pocahontas in the foreground..

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Shown here is the back, lower level of the Roanoke passenger station three years before the Raymond Loewy renovation.

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The N&W passenger station at Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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The N&W station at Bluefield, West Virginia.

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Norfolk & Western passenger station.

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The USO Lounge at the Norfolk & Western Passenger Station formally opened on 13 May 1942.

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James Pullen (center, in conductor's cap) assists Norfolk & Western Passenger Station employees with removal of a war veteran's remains from the baggage car of Train No. 23.
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