page_title: Elkhorn Grade Electrification
hierarchical_section_title: Elkhorn Grade Electrification
caption_attribution_description: Photo of the Norfolk &amp; Western's electric locomotive LC-1 from an ad in a 1923 edition of Railway Review. This is locomotive #2501.
context_page_description: The Elkhorn Grade Electrification was a project undertaken by Westinghouse in 1913–1915 to electrify a 27-mile section of the Norfolk and Western Railway's Bluefield Division in Virginia and West Virginia. Electrification would be extended further in the 1920s and the length of the electrified line would reach 52 miles before the N&W abandoned it in 1950.
context_section_description: The Elkhorn Grade Electrification was a project undertaken by Westinghouse in 1913–1915 to electrify a 27-mile (43 km) section of the Norfolk and Western Railway's Bluefield Division in Virginia and West Virginia. Electrification would be extended further in the 1920s and the length of the electrified line would reach 52 miles (84 km) before the N&W abandoned it in 1950.
caption: N&W LC-1 No. 2501 on the Elkhorn grade in 1915
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