Q. I am looking for railroad history and I understand that Virginia Tech has some resources.

Virginia Tech's Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) is a source of railroad history with more than 200 cu. ft. of business records and drawings, photographs, personal papers and publications relating to various regional railroads from the 1840s to the 1980s. More than 12,000 scanned images from NSCorp and other sources continue to be available through the VT ImageBase, one of our most popular online resources.

A list of manuscript collections relating to railroad history is available online through Archival Resources of the Virginias. Print resources relating to railroad history can be found using the library’s catalog. We encourage you to contact SCUA (specref@vt.edu) with railroad history queries, and we can help connect you to the archives at NSCorp if we do not have the records you seek.