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The Virginia Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "Virginia Line" referred to the quota of numbered infantry regiments assigned to Virginia at various times by the Continental Congress. These, together with similar contingents from the other twelve states, formed the Continental Line.
Virginia Central Railroad: Louisville and Nashville Railroad: L&N, LN L&N 1887 1983 Seaboard System Railroad: Lynchburg Belt Line and Connecting Railway: N&W: 1907 1910 Norfolk and Western Railway: Lynchburg and Danville Railroad: SOU: 1866 1872 Virginia and North Carolina Railroad: Lynchburg and Durham Railroad: N&W: 1887 1896 Norfolk ...
The line is a former N&W line and assumed its current name under N&W ownership. [29] Norfolk Terminal (Lamberts Point to Canal Drive) Norfolk, Virginia: Norfolk, Virginia The line is a former N&W property and it was once part of the Norfolk and Western main line and then the Norfolk District (formerly Lamberts Point to Crewe).
The Manassas Line is a Virginia Railway Express commuter rail service that extends from Washington, D.C. to Bristow, Virginia. [1] The first of VRE's two lines, with service beginning on June 22, 1992, [ 2 ] the line operates on tracks owned by CSX Transportation (the RF&P Subdivision ) and Norfolk Southern Railway (the Washington District ).
The Fredericksburg Line runs north–south along trackage that was once part of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad and is now part of CSX. Amtrak service to Richmond, Virginia, and points south (the Silver Service, Palmetto, Carolinian, and Northeast Regional runs to Hampton Roads) also uses this line. An extension to Spotsylvania ...
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 ...
Virginia & Truckee RR 20, "Tahoe", in the Carson Enginehouse. Virginia & Truckee RR 20, "Tahoe" (after restoration) at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Built in 1872, the Virginia & Truckee No. 11, the "Reno" was the V&T's first true passenger engine. It was the pride of the fleet, and was assigned to the pull the "Lightning Express," the V ...
The B-Line is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The line runs from Manassas west to Front Royal and Strasburg [1] along a former Southern Railway line, although no trains serve the section of the line from Front Royal to Strasburg, as the last customer closed its doors in 2020 ...