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  2. Virginia and Truckee Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The locomotive was acquired by the revived V&T in 2021, and arrived in Virginia City on August 25, 2021; it was the first time the locomotive had been in Virginia City since 1938. Inoperable, on display at Virginia City depot, planned to be restored to operation, tender currently receiving work. [38] No. 18: Ex-McCloud River Railroad No. 18 ...

  3. Caboose - Wikipedia

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    Large railroads also use cabooses as "shoving platforms" or in switching service where it is convenient to have crew at the rear of the train. A former caboose converted into a vacation cottage. Cabooses have been reused as vacation cottages, [17] garden offices in private residences, and as portions of restaurants. Also, caboose motels have ...

  4. Virginian Railway - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. List of Virginia railroads - Wikipedia

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    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 Virginia and Southwestern Railway: Virginia Southern Railroad: 1902 1931 N/A Virginia and Southwestern Railway: SOU: 1899 Still exists as a lessor of the Norfolk ...

  6. Eastern Shore Railway Museum - Wikipedia

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    The ESRM is open from noon until 4 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday, from March through October, and housed in a restored 1906 Pennsylvania Railroad passenger station. On its siding are two cabooses, [3] [4] a baggage car, [5] a Pullman sleeper, [6] Seaboard 6106, a Budd dining car, [7] a 1913 wooden box car [8] and the Diplomat, an observation ...

  7. Timeline of United States railway history - Wikipedia

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    1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...

  8. Amtrak Virginia - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Virginia Central Railroad - Wikipedia

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    In 1859, the Virginia Central's line carried 134,883 passengers throughout the year, and hauled 64,177 tons of freight. [26] The road connected Richmond to a point about 10 miles (16 km) east of Covington, where the proposed Covington and Ohio Railroad would have started, a distance of approximately 195 miles (314 km). [27]