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The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington , it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of ...
The C&O moved the eastern terminus in its Hampton Roads area trains west from Phoebus to Newport News in the mid-1950s, thus, the eastern destination of the Sportsman became Newport News. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Demand in central Kentucky on the Ashland - Lexington - Louisville branch declined, and the C&O eliminated that section from the train by 1956.
This segment of track became part of the C&O, as did the track through Gordonsville, which before becoming part of the C&O was the Virginia Central Railroad. Northeast of Orange, portions of the Orange and Alexandria railroad became part of the Southern; the present-day Norfolk Southern tracks between Orange and Charlottesville were built after ...
When the George Washington was inaugurated as C&O's top-notch train on April 30, 1932, it was one of only two all-air-conditioned, long-distance trains operating in America. (the other was the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Capitol Limited , which was instituted as an all-air-conditioned train only a week or so before the George Washington ).
Charlottesville Union Station, still a functional depot for Amtrak, is located on West Main street between 7th and 9th streets where the tracks of the former C&O Railway (leased by C&O successor CSX to Buckingham Branch Railroad) and Southern (now Norfolk Southern Railway) lines cross. Amtrak and the city of Charlottesville finished ...
A location was selected east of Charlottesville where the C&O mainline followed the Rivanna River, providing both an easy water supply and rail access. [29] The Red Land Power Corporation, chartered March 29, 1913, [31] was charged to construct a 2,000-horsepower plant for the C&A [32] and was merged into the C&A on November 25, 1913. [1]
The George Washington, the C&O's flagship train, was a long-distance sleeper that ran between Cincinnati and—via a split in Charlottesville, Virginia—Washington, D.C. and Newport News, Virginia. Until the late 1950s, the Riley carried the Washington ' s sleeper cars between Cincinnati and Chicago. [10]
Value America or VA was a dot-com company founded in Nevada in 1996 [1] by Craig Winn and Rex Scatena, [2] and relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia in February 1998. [1] Its business model involved connecting customers on the Web directly to manufacturers, with the intent of providing better pricing and faster shipping (a just-in-time model similar to those used by Wal-Mart and Dell).