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  2. List of Virginia railroads - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Shore Railroad: Virginia Midland Railway: SOU: 1880 1898 Southern Railway: Virginia and Mount Airy Railway: 1920 N/A Never operated Virginia and North Carolina Railroad: SOU: 1872 1873 Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway: Virginia and Potts Creek Railroad: N&W: 1906 1910 Big Stony Railway: Virginia and ...

  3. Northern Virginia trolleys - Wikipedia

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    A 1901 map showing early trolley lines in Arlington County, Virginia Diagram of 1915 electric railroad routes near the later routes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, showing: * The Washington-Mount Vernon line of the Washington-Virginia Railway (the "Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon Electric Railroad"); * The Rosslyn branch of the Washington-Virginia Railway (to the east of ...

  4. Virginian Railway - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Virginia and Tennessee Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Virginia and Tennessee Railroad map near Dublin Depot. The Virginia and Tennessee stimulated rapid economic growth in the counties through which it ran, and also changed their political alignment to more closely resemble that in Richmond and the Tidewater area, rather than of other Virginia counties in the Appalachian mountain region (much less ...

  6. Transportation in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The current Virginia passenger vehicle license plate, introduced in 2002. Transportation in the Commonwealth of Virginia is by land, sea and air.Virginia's extensive network of highways and railroads were developed and built over a period almost 400 years, beginning almost immediately after the founding of Jamestown in 1607, and often incorporating old established trails of the Native Americans.

  7. Chesterfield Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Chesterfield Railroad was located in Chesterfield County, Virginia.It was a 13-mile (21-kilometer) long mule-and-gravity powered line that connected the Midlothian coal mines with wharves that were located at the head of navigation on the James River just below the Fall Line at Manchester (on the south bank directly across from Richmond).

  8. Category:Virginia railroads - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina and Virginia Railroad; R. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway; S. Shenandoah Valley Railroad (short-line) V. Virginia Railway Express;

  9. Richmond and Danville Railroad - Wikipedia

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    1891 map of Richmond and Danville Railroad and connections Piedmont Air Line System advertisement 1882 1893 map (also showing the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad and connections) With the support of Virginia Governor Francis H. Pierpont , Algernon S. Buford became president of the 140-mile (230 km) R&D on September 13, 1865.