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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 ...
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)
USRA Heavy Mountain: K2a: 4-8-2: 126–137: Baldwin: 1923: 12: 0: ... Former Virginian Railway locomotives (acquired 1959) ... Originally in the black freight color ...
They were re-painted into two different paint schemes and served from the 1950s to the late 1960s, when the WSS, realizing it wasn't cost-effective to maintain servicing facilities, sent the GP9s back to their respective owners and started to lease equipment from the ACL and N&W.
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 ...
The Virginia–Carolina Railway was an interstate railroad in southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina. It ran from Abingdon in Washington County, Virginia to Todd in Ashe County, North Carolina. The line charted a complicated course through the mountains of the area, crossing the Blue Ridge not far from Mount Rogers.
On March 30, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that a $3.7 billion deal had been signed with CSX that finalized the sale of the Norlina Subdivision north of Ridgeway, in addition to the Buckingham Branch Railroad and half of the RF&P Subdivision right-of-way from Washington Union Station ...
Virginia Midland Railway: SOU: 1880 1898 Southern Railway: Virginia and Mount Airy Railway: 1920 N/A Never operated Virginia and North Carolina Railroad: SOU: 1872 1873 Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway: Virginia and Potts Creek Railroad: N&W: 1906 1910 Big Stony Railway: Virginia and Southeastern Railway: SOU: 1904 1908