Powhatan Arrow

The Powhatan Arrow was one of the named passenger trains of the Norfolk and Western Railway. Its route ran from Norfolk, Virginia to Cincinnati, Ohio.

Train 25 left Norfolk Terminal Station at 7:00 am, and made the 565 mile run to Portsmouth, Ohio in 12 hours, 50 minutes. The remaining 111.6 miles to Cincinnati Union Terminal took nearly 3 hours as the train performed all the local work on that stretch of line.

In the reverse direction, train 26 left Cincinnati at 8:10 am, Portsmouth at 11:10, arriving in Norfolk at 11:55 pm.

The motive power for the Powhatan Arrow was built by the Roanoke Shops of Norfolk and Western located in Roanoke, Virginia. The train was given its name from a name submission contest offered by Norfolk and Western, the winner of which was Mr. Leonard Allen Scott of Dry Branch, Virginia. His entry (among over 140,000) was sent out in the last sack of mail picked up by the mail train in Parrott the day of the deadline for postmarks. The Arrow made its maiden run on April 28, 1946 and quickly became one of the most popular of Norfolk and Western's passenger trains. It and its J-class powered companions traveled approximately 15,000 miles per month and may have traveled nearly three million miles in its lifetime.

Read more about Powhatan Arrow:  Background and Class History, Incidents

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