Vol. 3, No. 1 January / February 1987  Issue Select 
Issue Details
Cover Title: Annual Report 1955
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On the Cover: Cover page from 1955 Annual Report
Articles In This Issue
Society News - Rick Stone
Performance of 100-Ton Car with Four-Wheel Trucks - reprint Railway Age
  Photo Experimental High Capacity Caol car with Four-Wheel Trucks, Built by the Pressed Steel Car Company in 1921 (none listed)
  Photo The Four-Wheel Truck, Equipped with Clasp Brakes (None Listed)
Annual Reports - Rick Stone
  Data Sheet Figure 1: As an example the 1901 annual report was 85 pages long and went into great detail about the year's flood (1901 Annual Report)
  Data Sheet Figure 2: A short summary of how larger industries faired in 1901 (1905 Annual Report)
  Table Figure 3: Track Materials used for Maintenance and Renewals (1911 Annual Report)
  Data Sheet Figure 4: Mortgage Bonds (1911 Annual Report)
  Chart Figure 5: Newsworthy items such as N&W's first Harriman Gold Medal (1927 Annual Report)
  Chart Figure 6: N&W's Share of Coal Production Increases (1955 Annual Report)
  Chart Figure 7: Source and application of Funds (1963 Annual Report)
The "New" Roanoke Station 1905 - Reprint Railroad Gazette
  Drawing North Front Elevation of Roanoke Station, Norfolk & Western (Frye & Chesterman, Lynchburg, VA, Architects)
  Drawing West End Elevation, Roanoke Station (Frye & Chesterman, Lynchburg, VA, Architects)
  Drawing Section Through Center of Building (Frye & Chesterman, Lynchburg, VA, Architects)
  Drawing Ground Floor Plan of Norfolk & Western Staton at Roanoke, VA (Frye & Chesterman, Lynchburg, VA, Architects)
  Drawing Floor Plan at Track Level, Roanoke Station, Norfolk & Western (Frye & Chesterman, Lynchburg, VA, Architects)
Book Review / The War Engines The Union Pacific's Last Steam Power - Thomas D. Dressler
Current News - Robert G. Bowers; Ken Borg; Everett N. Young
  Photo General Electric demonstrator GE 808 on Eastbound N&W train NE02 at Cleveland, Ohio on November 29, 1986 (Ken Borg photo)
Modeler's Corner - Thomas D. Dressler
Kit Review / Overland's N&W Hopper Car Class HL 55 Ton 2 Bay - Jim Houston
H-10 Coal Car Conversion - Dean A. Freytag
  Photo The three hopper car segments placed together to make the cutting and splicing order a little more obvious (Dean Freytag photo)
  Photo Assembled car showing the placement of the new side ribs (Dean Freytag photo)
Tips for Contributing to the Newsletter - Unknown Unknown
Free Interchange - Michael Gresham
Norfolk & Western Railway Standard Method of Piling Cross Ties - N&W Railway
Vol. 3, No. 1 January / February 1987  Issue Select