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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 ...
The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad (reporting mark DGVR) is a heritage and freight railroad in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia.It operates the West Virginia State Rail Authority-owned Durbin Railroad and West Virginia Central Railroad (reporting mark WVC), [1] [2] as well as the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in Virginia.
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 ...
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.
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).
To the west, Bridgewater, Virginia was the original terminus, but the line was extended to Stokesville, a company town, by 1901. In 1933 the line was cut back to Bridgewater due to timber around the area drying up, and later to Dayton, Virginia. [4] To the east the line reached Elkton by 1896, where the line's main yard and shops were constructed.
[12] [13] Their bodies were never found. 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]
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. [6] [7] No. 611 hauled the excursion train with two diesels pulling the train back up to Goshen. [7]