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Amtrak Virginia is the collective name for Virginia's state-supported Amtrak train service, all of which falls under the Northeast Regional brand. Amtrak Virginia trains run between Washington, D.C. , and one of four southern termini: Richmond , Newport News , Norfolk , or Roanoke .
Virginia Railway Express (VRE) (reporting mark VREX) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from Spotsylvania, Virginia , and the Manassas Line from Broad Run station ...
Virginia and Kentucky Railway: Greensville and Roanoke Railroad: ACL: 1834 1855 Petersburg Railroad: Haysi Railroad: L&N/ SCL: 1969 1983 Seaboard System Railroad: Henrico Railroad: 1882 Laurel Railway: 1906 Lick Creek and Lake Erie Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1902 1908 Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway: Louisa Railroad: C&O: 1836 1850 Virginia ...
This is a route-map template for the List of Virginia railroads, a state passenger rail network. For a key to symbols, see {{ railway line legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
1915 map showing the route of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Engine No. 18, Baldwin 2-8-2 built in October 1914. Photo at Tunnel #4, 2011 V&T train near collapsed Tunnel #1, around 1940, and the same view in 2014, both photos showing the shoofly (detour) around the collapsed tunnel
An extension from Roanoke to Christiansburg, Virginia, near Virginia Tech, is in planning, [24] as is an infill station in Bedford, Virginia. [ 25 ] On July 20, 2010, Amtrak added an additional Northeast Regional frequency from Washington to Richmond Staples Mill Road station , increasing the Washington-Richmond corridor to eight daily round ...
Virginian 4, the last surviving steam engine of the Virginian Railway, on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia.. Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ...
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad map near Dublin Depot. The Virginia and Tennessee stimulated rapid economic growth in the counties through which it ran, and also changed their political alignment to more closely resemble that in Richmond and the Tidewater area, rather than of other Virginia counties in the Appalachian mountain region (much less ...