Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Penn Virginia Corporation records
Penn Virginia Corporation was an oil and gas company, incorporated as the Virginia Coal & Iron Company on January 6, 1882. It was one of many firms established by a group of interrelated entrepreneurs headed by John Leisenring (1819-1884), a Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, civil and mining engineer. The name changed to Penn Virigina Corporation in 1967. The records of Penn Virginia Corporation cover the development and operations of the Virginia Coal & Iron Company, a large southern Appalachian land company, with some information on its immediate neighbors and local support facilities.
Reading Company records
Chartered in 1871, Reading Company was the holding company for the system of railroads, canals and coal mines assembled by the predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company between 1833 and 1896. The collection consists of the corporate records of the Reading Company (1871-1976), the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (1833-1896), the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company (1896-1923), and 159 predecessors and subsidiaries.
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- Advertisements 1
- Anthracite coal industry 1
- Bus lines 1
- Canals 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Safety measures 1
- Coal preparation 1
- Coal-handling machinery 1
- Coke industry 1
- Coke-ovens 1
- Company stores 1
- Company towns 1
- Distilling, Illicit 1
- Field notes 1
- Fires 1
- Forest conservation 1
- Gas wells 1
- Holding companies 1
- Land companies 1
- Land surveys 1
- Logging 1
- Lumber trade 1
- Maps 1
- Natural gas 1
- Personnel records 1
- Police, Private 1
- Quarries and quarrying 1
- Railroad police 1
- Railroad stations 1
- Railroads -- Buildings and structures 1
- Railroads -- Employees 1
- Railroads -- Equipment and supplies 1
- Railroads -- Rolling stock 1
- Reservoirs 1
- Sawmills 1
- Street-railroads 1
- Telegraph 1
- Timetables 1
- Water-supply 1 + ∧ less
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