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The tunnel was used by the Virginia Central Railroad from its opening to 1858, when the line was reorganized as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (renamed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1878). The Chesapeake and Ohio routed trains through the tunnel until it was abandoned and replaced by a new tunnel in 1944.
The Patterson Creek Cutoff is an abandoned railroad line built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in northern West Virginia and Western Maryland, that served trains running on the B&O "West End" line in the Cumberland, Maryland area.
The following spring, the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), which regulated the state's railroads, ordered the western end of the tunnel sealed for safety reasons. [10] Left inside was the work train, complete with a 4-4-0 steam locomotive [14] (C&O switch engine no. 231) and ten flat cars. [15] The east entrance to the tunnel in 2010.
Seaboard Air Line Railroad; Seaboard Coast Line Railroad; Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad; Seaboard System Railroad; Shenandoah Valley Railway (1890) Shenandoah Valley Railroad (1867–1890) South and Western Railroad; South and Western Railway; Southeastern and Atlantic Railroad; Southern Railway (U.S.) Southside Railroad (Virginia) Swift Creek ...
In 1894, the newly formed Southern Railway absorbed the Richmond and Danville Railroad and acquired the WO&W. [11] [12] [13] In 1900, the Southern Railway extended the line westward for four miles from Round Hill to Snickersville, which was then renamed Bluemont; but abandoned all plans to go to West Virginia. [14]
"Pennsylvania Railroad Engine" by Raymond Burns will be on display at Staunton Augusta Art Center's "Rails, Rust and Rivets" exhibit. ... railroad museums and abandoned railroad lines, in search ...
This railroad was intended to construct a rail line over the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Louisa Railroad, which was renamed the Virginia Central Railroad in February 1850. The route was planned to extend from a point near Blair Park at the eastern base of the mountains to Waynesboro in the Shenandoah Valley via Rockfish Gap .
Utica and Syracuse Air Line Railway (U&SAL) - in 1881 the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway (BHT&W) [160] consolidated a chain of railroads to try and create its own line to the Erie Railroad from Rotterdam Junction. [161] The company president was General William Lathrop Burt, [162] so the project was nicknamed the Burt Line. The ...