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An EMD F3 leads an excursion over Route 28 north of Springfield, West Virginia. The Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad (reporting mark PESX ) is a heritage railroad based in Romney , West Virginia . The railroad operates excursion trains over a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line that runs between Green Spring and Petersburg .
Virginia Air Line Railway: C&O: 1906 1912 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Virginia Anthracite Coal and Railway Company: N&W: 1902 1911 Norfolk and Western Railway: Virginia Blue Ridge Railway: VBR 1914 1980 N/A Virginia and Carolina Railroad: SAL: 1882 1892 Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad: Virginia–Carolina Railway: N&W: 1898 1919 ...
SOU 4501. In 1966, the Southern Railway, under the leadership of W. Graham Claytor, Jr., operated a popular steam excursion program.The Southern Railway operated some Southern veterans, such as Southern Railway 630, Southern Railway 722, Southern Railway 4501, Savannah & Atlanta 750 as well as leased some locomotives which had served on non-Southern Railway tracks, such as Canadian Pacific ...
[3] [4] Unlike many U.S. heritage operations, which operate on lightly used branch lines, the VSR trains share track with Amtrak and CSX operations. [5] Around autumn of 2023, ex-Norfolk and Western 4-8-4 steam locomotive No. 611, visited the VSR to haul the weekend Shenandoah Valley Limited excursions between Goshen and Staunton.
From 2012 to 2015, No. 765 ran excursions on Norfolk Southern trackage in Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, for the 21st Century Steam program. In 2016, it ran excursions on Metra's Milwaukee District North Line and even the Rock Island District Line in 2017 and 2018.
The Winchester & Western was initially incorporated on August 16, 1916, for the purpose of tapping the forests of southeastern Hampshire County, West Virginia, and southwestern Frederick County, Virginia, in order to supply railroad ties and timber to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. [3]
Shenandoah Valley Railroad was a line completed on June 19, 1882, extending up the Shenandoah Valley from Hagerstown, Maryland through the West Virginia panhandle into Virginia to reach Roanoke, Virginia and to connect with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W).
A Norfolk Southern Railway grain train on the Chesapeake Western Railway in Linville, Virginia in 2012. The Chesapeake Western Railway is currently a subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Railway and operates three rail lines under their ownership - Elkton to Dayton, Harrisonburg to Pleasant Valley, and Harrisonburg to Bowman.