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Rockett's Landing (or simply Rocketts) is a new urbanist neighborhood in southeastern Richmond, Virginia on the border of Henrico County, Virginia and the north bank of the James River. [1] It was named after Baldwin Rockett, an 18th-century ship's captain born in April 1681 in Exeter, Devon, England.
At the top level is the 36-foot-high (11 m) Peninsula Subdivision Trestle, a 3-mile-long (5 km) viaduct parallel to the north bank of the James River built by the Chesapeake and Ohio in 1901 to link the former Richmond and Alleghany Railroad with the C&O's Peninsula Subdivision to Newport News and export coal piers.
Richmond's Main Street Station in the downtown area was built in 1901 by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). Seaboard had introduced service to Richmond, and C&O had consolidated the former Virginia Central Railroad and the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad, which had previously maintained separate stations.
Railways pioneering in using less hazardous types of third rail were the New York Central Railroad on the approach to New York's Grand Central Terminal (1907 – another case of a third-rail mainline electrification), Philadelphia's Market–Frankford Line (1907), and the Hochbahn in Hamburg (1912) each had bottom contact rail, also known as ...
The western terminus is in Willow Lawn, which is located in suburban Henrico County, while the eastern terminus ends in Rockets Landing, in the eastern part of the city of Richmond. It is the third bus rapid transit line built in Virginia, and the first rapid transit system to serve the city in almost 60 years.
The Saint Street crossing will be rebuilt Oct. 18-21. The Saint Street work will block access in an out of Moon River RV Park. Residents will be limited to right turns during construction.
A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, [1] as opposed to the railway line or the road etc. crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel.
The restaurant takes up about 7,000 square feet of the building. Owners Andy Lock and Domhnall Molloy opened the original Third Street Social at 123 S.E. Third St. in Lee’s Summit in 2016 ...