The tracks of the Norfolk and Western Railway snaked through Virginia�s Shenandoah Valley and the coalfields of West Virginia. For nearly 100 years; the Norfolk and Western brought freight; passengers; and economic vitality to large cities and rural mining towns. At each stop was the depot or station; some stations were large; architecturally ornate structures that represented the muscular energy and romantic era of this great steam railway with its famed J-class engines. In other places there were small wooden depots that depicted the hard-scrabble life of the mining communities; tucked amid steep mountain valleys that were indelibly shaped by the railway�s presence. Today some of those structures remain; while many disappeared when the railway ceased passenger or other service. The Norfolk and Western eventually merged with the Southern Railway; and though the trains of the Norfolk Southern still run along those same lines; they simply pass by where they used to stop many years ago.
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