Familiar - N&W Overalls, Lynchburg, Virginia

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I don’t know if using the letters N&W would constitute using their name 
or not. I would bet not .There where B&O overalls as well. I been collecting  long time . I think most collectors have always known the difference about the buttons and they are not fakes or reproductions. Just not from the railroad.

Larry Evans

> On Nov 8, 2019, at 2:39 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Boy oh boy. As historians and railroadiana collectors we think we know enough to keep from buying fakes or reproductions. I looked at the photo of the N&W brass buttons used on their bib overalls and wondered how many collectors had purchased them over the years thinking that they were used on a N&W Conductors uniform. I’m sure if you compared the overall button to a conductor button they are different. Most of us aren’t going to be so careful. I’m shocked that the N&W Railway allowed the use of their name. I don’t think that would happen today.
> Thanks to all for their input. 
> Norris 
> 
> Norris Deyerle
> Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners
> Info: www.blueridgenrhs.org
> 744 Chinook Place
> Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908
> Cell: 434-851-0151
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> Google search turns up this page with a now closed auction for some N & W overalls:
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> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-vtg-early-1900s-norfolk-535511424
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> The page has this information on N &W:
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> PLEASE NOTE: A knowledgeable eBayer sent me this info. According to http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lynchburg/subsection:Kemper_Street_Industrial_HD_2008_NR_final.pdf dated: 24-Nov-2008 ... "The N&W Overall Company began manufacturing overalls (probably in Roanoke) for the Norfolk & Western Railroad in1900 (hence the name34). Isadore Sachs, a Russian-born clothing manufacturer, appears in the 1900 census for Roanoke, Virginia. However, the Jewish Publication Society’s “American Jewish Yearbook” for 1904-1905 lists him in Lynchburg, care of the N & W Overall Factory. The 1910 census indicates that Sachs was the president of the overall factory, and that his twenty-six year old son Joseph was a cutter there. By 1920, the census shows that Sachs was no longer the head of the N & W Overall Company, but was a retail merchant, which is confirmed in the 1925 city directory, which lists him as owning “Sach’s Sample Store, General Merchandise.
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> Unfortunately the URL in that note is defunct.
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> Rob Doorack
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> Subject: Re: Familiar - N&W Overalls, Lynchburg, Virginia
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> N&W Overalls was a long time  company in Lynchburg and I recall seeing its plants in the 1950s and 60s.
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> Go to the web and enter N&W Overalls- Lynchburg and you will find pictures of the plants and a number of railroad pictures some of which I had never seen.
>  
> N&W Overalls, to the best of my knowledge, had no corporate relationship to the N&W Railroad.
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>     Ray Smoot
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> On Nov 8, 2019, at 8:42 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>  For years I have heard of N&W Overalls, Lynchburg, Va. Was this company affiliated with the N&W Railway? Where in Lynchburg was the manufacturer’s plant located? Beautiful photo by Mike Pierry, Jr.! 
> Thanks, 
> Norris 
> 
> Norris Deyerle
> Blue Ridge Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Chairman of Virginia's Rail Heritage Region Partners
> Info: www.blueridgenrhs.org
> 744 Chinook Place
> Lynchburg, Virginia 24502-4908
> Cell: 434-851-0151
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> I probably am late to the party but this sign was something new for me. Mounted inside the replica Depot in Matewan.
>  
> Mike Pierry, Jr.
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