Last Modified:
May 13, 2024
Copyright 2016
Norfolk Southern Historical Society,
All Rights Reserved
Copyright 2016
Norfolk Southern Historical Society,
All Rights Reserved
The Eastern Carolina Despatch Newsletter
The Society prints and mails out to its members a bi-annual newsletter, the Eastern Carolina Despatch. Reprints of the following issues are now being made. Each issue will be in the current booklet format, with 20 pages including stiff paper front and back covers with color photos.
Unlike Volume 1, which we reprinted with both issues in a single booklet, subsequent volumes will consist of two separate booklets for each issue. Each issue will contain society and general railroad news, plus feature articles. For your information, the feature articles contained in each issue are tabulated below:
| Eastern Carolina Despatch Index | |
| Volume 1, No. 1, February 2002 and No. 2, October 2002 | |
| -Society News February 2002 | |
| -Growing Up on the Old Norfolk Southern, by Bill Sellers | |
| -Early Elizabeth City and Norfolk Schedules, by Robert Reisweber | |
| -Society News October 2002 | |
| -The Albemarle Sound Trestle of the N&S Railway, by F.L. Nicholson, reprinted from the Feb. 25, 1910 issue of Railway Age magazine. | |
| Volume 2, No. 1, February 2003 | |
| -The Carolina Coastal Railway, by Paul Kutta (reprinted from National Railway Bulletin) | |
| -Norfolk & Southern Railroad at Mackeys Ferry, by Bob Spruill | |
| Volume 2, No. 2, August 2003 | |
| -Survey of Endangered Norfolk Southern and Norfolk Southern-Related History, by Tony Reevy and Robert Reisweber. | |
| -Checklist of Existing Norfolk Southern Structures | |
| -Existing Norfolk Southern and Norfolk Southern-Related Equipment | |
| -Charlotte-Raleigh Railway Narrowly Missed Albemarle, by Fred T. Morgan (early history of the Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern Railway, later the predecessor of the Norfolk Southern Raleigh-Charlotte line, reprinted from The Stanly News & Press) | |
| Volume 3, No. 1, February 2004 | |
| -Norfolk Southern Photographs in North Carolina State Archives, compiled by Tony Reevy | |
| -Postal Cancellations of the Norfolk Southern Railway Post Office (RPO) Routes, by Tony Reevy | |
| -Last of Steam on the Norfolk Southern, by David F. Burnette | |
| Volume 3, No. 2, August 2004 | |
| -Current Operations on the Former Norfolk Southern Western District, by Robert Reisweber | |
| -2004 Survey, NS Right-of-Way, Structures & Rolling Stock, by Tony Reevy and Robert Reisweber | |
| -Getting There Was Half the Fun, by Henry C. Bridges, Jr. (Description of a family's trip over Norfolk Southern from Charlotte to Elizabeth City in 1919, reprinted from The State magazine) | |
| Volume 4, No. 1, February 2005 | |
| -Norfolk Southern, by H.A. McBride (reprinted from Trains magazine) | |
| -Southern Railway's East Carolina Limited, August 9, 1981, by Wiley M. Bryan (Description of an excursion operated over former NS trackage from Raleigh to New Bern) | |
| -Here and There, by H. Temple Crittenden (The author's recollections of logging railroads in northeastern North Carolina, some of which became part of NS) | |
| Volume 4, No. 2, August 2005 | |
| -2006 Survey, NS Right-of-Way, Structures & Rolling Stock, by Tony Reevy and Robert Reisweber | |
| -A Possible New Competitor in the South, from Railway Age Gazette, Jan. 5th, 1912 | |
| -New Extension of the Norfolk Southern, from Railway Age Gazette, Jun. 13th, 1913 | |
| Volume 5, No. 1, February 2006 | |
| -Society News February 2006 | |
| -The Chesapeake & Albemarle Railroad, Coastal Carolina Shortline, by Tony Reevy | |
| -First Train on the Norfolk Southern, by Robert C. Reisweber | |
| Volume 5, No. 2, August 2006 | |
| -Society News August 2006 | |
| -2006 Survey, NS Right-of-Way, Structures & Rolling Stock, by Tony Reevy and Robert Reisweber | |
| -Recalling Raleigh & the Norfolk Southern by Jeremy F. Plant | |
| Volume 6, No. 1, February 2007 | |
| -Society News February 2007 | |
| -A Day in the Life of the Norfolk Southern (in 1918) by Dave Burnette | |
| -The NS Carolina Business Car by Rob Rousseau | |
| -Northern Summit Railcar Project by Don Evans | |
| Volume 6, No. 2, August 2007 | |
| -Society News August 2007 | |
| -2007 Survey, NS Right-of-Way, Structures & Rolling Stock, by Tony Reevy | |
| -Growing Up Around the Original Norfolk Southern Railroad by Fred Davenport | |
| Volume 7, No. 1, February 2008 | |
| -Society News February 2008 | |
| -New Holland, Higginsport, and Mt. Vernon Railroad by Lewis C. Forrest | |
| -Norfolk Southern Buys Four Light Rail Motor Cars from Railway Age, January 19th, 1935 | |
| -Norfolk Southern Regains Passengers from Railway Age, February 22nd, 1936 | |
| -Rail Cars to Tidewater; The Norfolk Southern Railbus Story by Paul Kutta | |
| Volume 7, No. 2, August 2008 | |
| -Society News August 2008 | |
| -Norfolk Southern Class D4 Ten Wheeler 4-6-0 Passenger Locomotives by Tony Reevy | |
| -2008 Survey, Norfolk Southern Rights-of-Way, Structures, and Rolling Stock by Tony Reevy | |
| -New Holland, Higgensport & Mt. Vernon Ry. Con't by Paul Kutta | |
| Volume 8, No. 1, February 2009 | |
| -Society News February 2009 | |
| -New Hope Valley Railroad by David Younts | |
| -Norfolk Southern Class F 2-8-4s Berkshires by Tony Reevy | |
| -Caleb Divers Ferrell by Harry Bundy | |
| -From "Wisconsin" to "Virginia" to "Carolina" and Back By David F. Burnette | |
| Volume 8, No. 2, August 2009 | |
| -Society News August 2009 | |
| -2009 Survey, Norfolk Southern Rights-of-Way, Structures, and Rolling Stock by Tony Reevy | |
| -Jack Delano's Photos of Potato Harvesting, Grading and Loading Along the Norfolk Southern in Northeastern North Carolina by Tony Reevy | |
| Volume 9, No. 1, February 2010 | |
| -Society News February 2010 | |
| -Captain Charlie and the "Bohunk" by Harry Bundy | |
| -A Portfolio from the Bob Newton Collection: NS American 4-4-0 Types by Tony Reevy | |
| Volume 9, No. 2, August 2010 | |
| -Society News August 2010 | |
| -2009 Survey, Norfolk Southern Rights-of-Way, Structures, and Rolling Stock by Tony Reevy | |
| -The History of Cape Fear Railways by Supt. Nick Darnell | |