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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–Carolina Railway: Virginian Railway: VGN N&W: 1907 1959 Norfolk and Western Railway: Virginian Terminal Railway: N&W: 1907 1936 Virginian Railway: Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad: RF&P: 1862 1868 Alexandria and Washington Railroad: Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway: SOU: 1873 1880 Virginia ...
Harold A. Reid (1925–1992), also known by the pen name H. Reid, was an American writer, photographer, and historian. Reid's photographs of steam locomotives, captured the last days of steam motive power on America's Class I railroads, notably on the Virginian Railway, and ending with the Norfolk and Western in 1960, the last major U.S. railroad to convert from steam.
No. 4501 was repainted in the Southern passenger Virginian green and gold paint scheme, paying homage to the Ps-4 locomotives that were also painted in the livery. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] After the restoration was completed in August 1966, the No. 4501 locomotive pulled its inaugural excursion train between Chattanooga and Richmond, Virginia , officially ...
Modeled after the Chessie System and the SCL/L&N Family Lines, each railroad would retain its own corporate identity and color scheme, but would follow a standardized layout for paint schemes. The V&O would keep its deep blue and white, the AM would adopt a bright red and yellow, and the VM would go with yellow and deep green.
EMD GP7 (BB 101, formerly of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad that was eventually refurbished with its original RF&P paint scheme and number) x6 EMD GP16 (BB 1, BB 2, BB 3, BB 8 and BB 9, BB 8 also retained its original paint scheme for a while after purchase by the BB) Baldwin RS-4-TC (BB 4) x3 EMD GP40 (BB 5, BB 6 and BB 7)
Former Virginian Railway locomotives (acquired 1959) EL-3A: 1-D-1: 100ABC to 111ABC: Alco & Westinghouse: ... Originally in the black freight color scheme, she was ...
Because of the Harrison Engines' Virginian green and gold paint scheme, they were signified as the First Ladies of the Pacifics around the SOU system. [15] [16] The final Ps-4s were built in April 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, consisting of only five locomotives for SOU, Nos. 1405-1409. [3]