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The West Virginia State Rail Authority (SRA) owns the line and freight service is provided by the South Branch Valley Railroad. The Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad's excursion trains run from Romney to Moorefield with occasional longer trips to Petersburg. All excursions use diesel locomotives. A highlight of the trip is passage along the South ...
South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad: SOU: 1882 1898 Virginia and Southwestern Railway: South and Western Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1905 1908 Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway: South and Western Railway: ACL/ L&N: 1902 1906 South and Western Railroad: Southeastern and Atlantic Railroad: 1896 1898 Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad: Southern ...
[3] [4] Unlike many U.S. heritage operations, which operate on lightly used branch lines, the VSR trains share track with Amtrak and CSX operations. [5] Around autumn of 2023, ex-Norfolk and Western 4-8-4 steam locomotive No. 611, visited the VSR to haul the weekend Shenandoah Valley Limited excursions between Goshen and Staunton.
The exhibit includes pictures, artifacts, and recorded interviews with African-Americans who worked for the railroad. Big Lick. This exhibit reproduces a 1930s rural train depot, featuring freight scales, a telegrapher's office, timetables, and a velocipede hand car used for servicing track.
From Gore, the line heads south along Mine Spring Run where it currently ends at the sand mine. This list includes all of the communities and stations that have been served at one time by the original Winchester and Western Railroad. The towns are listed from Winchester to Wardensville: Map of WW's Virginia Division [6] Frederick County, Virginia
The N&W had run excursion trains since its first days of passenger traffic, and deliberately powered them with steam engines after 1960, when most other trains had been switched to diesels. The excursion trains were powered by several of the N&W's famous steam locomotives, including J class #611 and A class #1218.
From 2012 to 2015, No. 765 ran excursions on Norfolk Southern trackage in Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, for the 21st Century Steam program. In 2016, it ran excursions on Metra 's Milwaukee District North Line and even the Rock Island District Line in 2017 and 2018.
The Southside Railroad was formed in Virginia in 1846. Construction was begun in 1849 and completed in 1854. [1] [2] The 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [3] railroad connected City Point, a port on the James River with the farm country south and west of Petersburg, Virginia, to Lynchburg, Virginia, a distance of about 132 miles (212 km).