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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 ...
Located at the intersection of Jefferson Street SE and Williamson Road, the Virginian Station served as a passenger station for the Virginian Railway between 1910 and 1956. [3] The station was the only station constructed with brick along the entire length of the Virginian's 608 miles (978 km) network. [ 4 ]
Virginian Railway Passenger Station (Roanoke, Virginia) This page was last edited on 12 August 2019, at 16:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Virginian Railway 250-ton wrecking derrick B-37 #40037, Southern Railway boxcar #33348; Southern Railway Big John hopper #8638; Norfolk Southern flatcar. Used as a stage for events; 3 Norfolk & Western hopper cars. Saved from Virginia Scrap and Iron; Norfolk Southern hopper car #23760. 25,000th rebodied car from Roanoke shops; Ex-Norfolk ...
ES 499.0001, actual running number 350 001-4, of the Slovakian Railways (ZSSK) in its factory paint scheme. Railway companies in Europe have also taken up this practice. CC 201 83 31 of the Kereta Api Indonesia (formerly CC 201 69), the first of the national railway's main line locomotive to use honorary paint scheme, sporting the railway's 1953-1991 paint scheme since 2021. [9]
Southern Railway 4501 is a preserved Ms class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive. Built in October 1911 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , No. 4501 was the first of its wheel arrangement type for the Southern Railway (SOU) .
Virginian Railway Yard Historic District is a national historic district located at Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia. The district includes 14 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure related to the Virginian Railway property at Princeton. Many date to the founding of the railway in 1905–1909, with ...
No. 4472 Flying Scotsman, an example of an LNER apple green steam locomotive, which inspired Harrison to have the Ps-4 locomotives painted in Virginian green. In 1925, Southern Railway president Fairfax Harrison traveled to the United Kingdom, where he admired the country's London and North Eastern Railway's apple green passenger steam locomotives.