Norfolk and Western Control
On September 28, 1962 the N&W purchased the A&D on the steps of the Post Office in Norfolk for $1.5 million. N&W was the only bidder. Under N&W control the railroad was renamed the Norfolk, Franklin, and Danville. Because the N&W already had its own line to Norfolk as well as the former Virginian Railway line which the N&W had acquired in 1959, the NF&D was of interest to the N&W mainly because of access to Danville and a small number of industrial online customers between Danville and Suffolk. Consolidation of the N&W and the Southern into the Norfolk Southern in 1982 made the western end of the NF&D irrelevant, and it was abandoned soon thereafter. Legally the NF&D was merged into the N&W in 1983. Norfolk Southern continues to operate the former NF&D between Lawrenceville and Suffolk. NS leased out the line from Suffolk to the West Norfolk community in Portsmouth to a short line railroad, the Commonwealth Railway.
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