Dates of opening various line segments

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Gordon

A gap I see in this timeline is the connection from Lynchburg to Roanoke.

Bob Bayles

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> On Oct 7, 2017, at 13:59, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Mr. Baer,
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> A summary of the information that you seek can  be found in tabular form on the NWHS Society website at:   http://www.nwhs.org/nw_timeline.php
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> Any more specific dates, etc., would require research by Society members.
> 
> Gordon Hamilton
> 
> Member, NWHS Archives Committee
> 
>> On 10/6/2017 9:00 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>> Dear Sirs,
>> Can you tell me if anyone has compiled a listing of the dates at which various segments of the N&W opened?  I am mostly interested in the system’s expansion between about 1883 and 1900.  Not necessarily every small coal branch, but the larger projects that brought it into new territory.  I have been preparing a time line of the PRR and related railroads which is on the web site of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society, and because of the longstanding close relationship between the PRR and N&W, and the fact that NS ended up with a lot of ex-PRR property, I am trying to include more benchmark data for the N&W. 
>> 
>> It is rather frustrating, because we have the company annual reports, but they mostly tell when they expect to open something, and unlike the PRR reports, do not usually date line openings themselves.  I have also used the Official Guide, but they often update the text of timetables without changing the date at the top.  I have tried Wolfe’s book on the Clinch Valley, Lambie and Striplin, without much luck.  Even Railroad Gazette does not have a lot of N&W news or the events are reported without a date.
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>> Any suggestions you can give would be appreciated.  You are welcome to take whatever information you might find useful from the PRR Chronology.
>> 
>> Chris Baer
>> 
>> Hagley Museum and Library
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>> cbaer at jhagley.org
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