Browse Items (4 total)

Loaded coal cars awaiting shipment from an N&W coal tipple. Note the different grades of coal being loaded. During World War II, the United States Navy almost exclusively used N&W coal for its Atlantic fleet.

Diesel Engine No. 322 pulls a consist of coal through Virginia. The switch to diesel was difficult for N&W given its commercial investment in coal.

This is the view across the flat yard at Norfolk, Virginia. Hoppers would wait in the yard to be emptied.

This consist of coal includes some hoppers from the Virginia Railway, which had been acquired by N&W in 1959.