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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 ...
The Virginian EL-C, later known as the New Haven EF-4 and E33, was an electric locomotive built for the Virginian Railway by General Electric in August 1955. They were the first successful production locomotives to use Ignitron (mercury arc) rectifier technology.
The equivalent UIC classification is to be refined to (1'D)D(D2') for these engines. Only one 2-8-8-8-4 was ever built, a Mallet-type for the Virginian Railway in 1916. [1] Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, it became the only example of their class XA, so named due to the experimental nature of the locomotive.
The Virginian Railway's class EL-2B comprised four two-unit electric locomotives with AAR (B+B-B+B)+(B+B-B+B) wheel arrangements.The locomotives were used on the 133-mile (214 km) electrified portion of the railroad, from Roanoke, Virginia to Mullens, West Virginia.
Virginian Railway USE class No. 737, which was originally built as Norfolk and Western 2015 and previously operated as Santa Fe 1792 [20] In December 1947, the Santa Fe sold Nos. 1790-1796 to the Virginian Railway, where they were renumbered again as Nos. 736-742, reclassified as USE's, and rebuilt at their Princeton, West Virginia shops.
Pages in category "Virginian Railway locomotives" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. 2-10-10-2; V.
Virginian Railway SA class #4 steam locomotive. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1910, it is the last remaining steam engine from the Virginian Railway. Norfolk & Western Class M2c #1151; Norfolk & Western Class G-1 #6.
The locomotive was built to power coal trains on the 0.57% eastward climb from White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to Alleghany, Virginia. With one at the front and another at the back, 11,500-ton coal trains left Hinton, West Virginia, and were at full throttle from White Sulphur Springs to the top of the grade at Alleghany. C&O's 2-6-6-6s ...