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  2. List of Virginia railroads - Wikipedia

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    Big Stone Gap and Powell's Valley Railway: 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 ...

  3. Virginian Railway - Wikipedia

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    William Nelson Page (1854–1932) was a civil engineer and entrepreneur. Page, who was born in Virginia and educated at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, originally came to West Virginia in the 1870s to help build the double-track Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) in the New and Kanawha River Valleys.

  4. Loading gauge - Wikipedia

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    The main platform is defined to have a height of 1,100 mm (43.3 in) at a distance of 1,920 mm (75.6 in) from the center of the track to allow for trains with profile T. Low platforms at a height of 200 mm (7.9 in) may be placed at 1,745 mm (68.7 in) from the center of the track.

  5. Virginia Southern Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Track gauge 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge The Virginia Southern Railroad ( reporting mark VSRR ) is a shortline railroad division of the North Carolina and Virginia Railroad ( reporting mark NCVA ), a subsidiary of the Genesee & Wyoming , with rights to operate 78 miles (126 km) of track between Norfolk Southern Railway ...

  6. Amtrak Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Amtrak Virginia is the collective name for Virginia's state-supported Amtrak train service, all of which falls under the Northeast Regional brand. Amtrak Virginia trains run between Washington, D.C. , and one of four southern termini: Richmond , Newport News , Norfolk , or Roanoke .

  7. Ashland station (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The former black waiting room is now a museum filled with various RF&P railroad artifacts, including blueprints, model railroad trains, a bench that was once on display at the Smithsonian Museum, local newspaper and locally related magazine articles. Construction of new platforms and mobile lifts for accessibility was completed in June 2022. [3]

  8. Track geometry - Wikipedia

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    For example, North America uses the reference rail as the line rail which is the east rail of tangent track running north and south, the north rail of tangent track running east and west, the outer rail (the rail that is further away from the center) on curves, or the outside rails in multiple track territory. [6] For Swiss railroad, the ...

  9. Structure gauge - Wikipedia

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    In narrow curves, long cars like this 26.4 m (86 ft 7 in) long express train car protrude further into the gauge than on a straight track. (180° curve near Königstein im Taunus ) A structure gauge , also called the minimum structure outline , is a diagram or physical structure that sets limits to the extent that bridges, tunnels and other ...