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Norfolk & Western Railway Roanoke Shops

The Norfolk & Western Railway Roanoke Shops, also called the East End Shops, built nearly 500 steam locomotives in Roanoke, Virginia, from 1884 to 1953.

Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum

The Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum is a volunteer-run museum at Flixton near Bungay on the Norfolk–Suffolk border, holding more than 60 aircraft and open since 1975.

Norfolk and Western classes Y6, Y6a and Y6b

The Norfolk and Western classes Y6, Y6a and Y6b were 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotives built at the railroad's Roanoke Shops in Virginia between 1936 and 1952.

Norfolk and Western Railway

The Norfolk and Western Railway was a Class I railroad headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, formed in 1870, known for hauling Pocahontas coalfield coal and for its steam locomotives.

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival: Yale School of Music's summer chamber music school and concert series in Norfolk, Connecticut, on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate; Music Shed (1906), six-week fellowship program, distinct from the UK Norfolk County Music Festival.

Norfolk County, Massachusetts

Norfolk County, Massachusetts: county created 1793 from Suffolk County, county seat Dedham, 28 communities including detached Brookline and Cohasset; population 725,981 (2020), one of six intact county governments, birthplace of four U.S. presidents.

Norfolk Island

Norfolk Island (Norf'k community) is an Australian external territory about 1,600 km northeast of Sydney, population 2,188, settled by Bounty mutineer descendants from Pitcairn in 1856; KAVHA is World Heritage-listed, and self-government ended in 2015.

Norfolk Ridge

Norfolk Ridge, a submerged continental ridge of Zealandia linking New Caledonia to northern New Zealand, about 1,500 km long with 20–25 km thick continental crust, formed by Eocene–Oligocene uplift during Tonga-Kermadec subduction initiation.

Oct 10, 2026

Norfolk Southern

Norfolk Southern is a Class I freight railroad incorporated in Virginia in 1980, running about 19,100 route miles in 22 eastern states and moving roughly 7 million carloads a year.

Norfolk Southern Railway

Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the eastern United States, formed in 1982 from the Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway merger.

Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass

The Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, nicknamed the "Can Opener" and "11foot8 bridge," is a low railroad trestle in Durham, North Carolina, known for crashing into tall trucks.

Norfolk State University

Norfolk State University (NSU) is a public HBCU in Norfolk, Virginia, founded in 1935, with about 5,400 students, SACSCOC accreditation, 2025 Carnegie RCU research classification, MEAC Division I athletics, and a $50 million MacKenzie Scott gift.

Norfolk Street

Norfolk Street, Leicester: street west of the River Soar, site of the Norfolk Street or Cherry Orchard Roman corridor villa (mid-2nd to early 5th century), found 1782, excavated 1851, 1868, and 1979-80.

Norfolk Terrier

Norfolk Terrier, a small East Anglian working terrier with drop ears, split from the prick-eared Norwich Terrier (UK 1964, AKC 1979); 9-10 inches, 11-12 pounds, red, wheaten, black-and-tan, or grizzle wiry coat.

Norfolk Vanguard

Norfolk Vanguard is a consented offshore wind farm off Norfolk, England, in the southern North Sea, with two sites of 1.4 GW each, expected to operate from 2029.

Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk, Virginia: independent Hampton Roads seaport city at the mouth of the James and Elizabeth Rivers; home of Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval base, the Port of Virginia, and a $6 billion floodwall program.

Oct 20, 2026

Norge Luis Vera

Norge Luis Vera (Norge Luis Vera Peralta) is a Cuban right-handed pitcher born 1971 in Siboney, Santiago de Cuba, an Olympic gold medalist who defected in 2019.

Oct 10, 2026

Norges Bank

Norges Bank is the central bank of Norway, owned by the government, which sets monetary policy with a 2% inflation target and manages the Government Pension Fund Global.

Norges idrettsforbund og olympiske og paralympiske komite

NIF (Norges idrettsforbund og olympiske og paralympiske komite), Norway's Olympic, Paralympic, and sports confederation body, founded 1861, merged 1996, about 1.86 million members, 55 federations, funded by Norsk Tipping gaming proceeds.

Norgestimate

Norgestimate (NGM), a 19-norsteroid progestin prodrug converted to norelgestromin, is used with ethinyl estradiol in combined oral contraceptives such as Ortho Tri-Cyclen, FDA-approved since 1989 for pregnancy prevention and moderate acne, with levonorgestrel-level VTE risk.