Pete, it's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; ">East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><br>
</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">From Wikipedia:</span><br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; line-height: 19px; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">
The ETV&G was created in 1869 with the consolidation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Tennessee_and_Virginia_Railroad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(204, 34, 0); background-position: initial initial; ">East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad</a> which operated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Knoxville, Tennessee</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol,_Tennessee" title="Bristol, Tennessee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Bristol, Tennessee</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=East_Tennessee_and_Georgia_Railroad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(204, 34, 0); background-position: initial initial; ">East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad</a> which operated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Knoxville, Tennessee</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton,_Georgia" title="Dalton, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Dalton, Georgia</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">The ETV&G absorbed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Southern_Railroad" title="Georgia Southern Railroad" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Georgia Southern Railroad</a> in 1881. The Atlanta Division of the railroad running from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Georgia" title="Rome, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Rome</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Atlanta</a> and on to<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon,_Georgia" title="Macon, Georgia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Macon</a> was built in 1882 and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rome_and_Decatur_Railroad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rome and Decatur Railroad (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: rgb(204, 34, 0); background-position: initial initial; ">Rome and Decatur Railroad</a> was added in 1890.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">In 1895 the ETV&G and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_and_Danville_Railroad" title="Richmond and Danville Railroad" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Richmond and Danville Railroad</a> were merged to form the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_(US)" title="Southern Railway (US)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Southern Railway</a>.</p>
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Jerry</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">
<br></p></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, NW Mailing List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I think I know who the NKP is-Nickel Plate.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">But would some one fill in the full names of the WAB, P&WV, ACY,
W&LE</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I am now guessing so correct as necessary.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P & WV-Pittsburgh and West
Virginia.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">PRR and N&W and N&S are known.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Any help appreciated.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Pete Heimbach – Jonesborough, TN on the East Tennessee, Georgia
and Virginia (perhaps
in the wrong order) – later Southern – now N&S</span></font></p>
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