Norfolk & Western Railway ,000 Gold Bond 1930s-Crisp, Big, Pretty - WOW !

Description

Very Fresh ,000 Bond with a beautiful design, ca 1932, one light vertical fold.
The
Norfolk and Western Railway
(
N&W
) (
reporting mark
NW
), a US
class I railroad
, was formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It had headquarters in
Roanoke, Virginia
for most of its 150 year existence.
The company was famous for manufacturing
steam locomotives
in-house at the
Roanoke Shops
as well as their own
hopper cars
. Around 1960, N&W was the last major American railroad to convert from steam to diesel motive power.
In the mid 20th century, N&W merged with long-time rival
Virginian Railway
in the Pocahontas coal region and grew even more in size and profitability by mergers with other rail carriers including
Nickel Plate Road
and
Wabash
in adjacent areas to form a system serving 14 states and a
Canadian
province between the
Atlantic Ocean
and the
Mississippi River
and
Great Lakes
with more than 7,000 miles (11,000 km) of trackage.
In 1982, the Norfolk & Western Railway was combined with the
Southern Railway
, another profitable carrier, to form the
Norfolk Southern
Corporation (NS), but it continued paper operations until it was merged into the Southern (by this point renamed Norfolk Southern Railway) in 1997.
Norfolk and Western operated profitably through
World War I
and
World War II
and paid regular dividends throughout the Depression. During
World War I
, the N&W was jointly operated with its adjacent competitor, the
Virginian Railway
(VGN), under the
USRA
's wartime takeover of the Pocahontas Roads. The operating efficiencies were significant, and after the war, when the railroads were returned to their respective owners and competitive status, the N&W never lost sight of the VGN and its low-grade routing through Virginia. However, the US
Interstate Commerce Commission
(ICC) turned down attempts at combining the roads until the late 1950s, when a proposed Norfolk & Western Railway and Virginian Railway merger was finally approved.
Norfolk and Western also operated safely in this time, being the recipient of the Gold
E. H. Harriman Award
for 1938. In a promotional booklet published in 1939, Norfolk and Western wrote "For the second time in 12 years, the American Museum of Safety has awarded the Harriman Memorial Gold Medal to the Norfolk & Western Railway for the outstanding safety record during 1938 among class I railroads of the United States." It is further noted that the railway carried one million passengers more than 86 million miles without incident in the period from 1924 to 1938.
Additional Information:
This is a cancelled ,000 Mortgage Bond.
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