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Amtrak Virginia is the collective name for Virginia's state-supported Amtrak train service, all of which falls under the Northeast Regional brand. Amtrak Virginia trains run between Washington, D.C. , and one of four southern termini: Richmond , Newport News , Norfolk , or Roanoke .
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 ...
Big Stone Gap and Powell's Valley Railway: Virginia Air Line Railway: C&O: 1906 1912 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Virginia Anthracite Coal and Railway Company: N&W: 1902 1911 Norfolk and Western Railway: Virginia Blue Ridge Railway: VBR 1914 1980 N/A Virginia and Carolina Railroad: SAL: 1882 1892 Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad ...
The Virginia Central Railroad was an early railroad in the U.S. state of Virginia that operated between 1850 and 1868 from Richmond westward for 206 miles (332 km) to Covington. Chartered in 1836 as the Louisa Railroad by the Virginia General Assembly , the railroad began near the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad 's line and ...
The railroad boosted Virginia commerce. Farmers from Virginia's Piedmont region, and later, the Shenandoah Valley could more cheaply ship their products, produce, and goods to the markets of Washington, D.C. , and Richmond , and to ocean-going vessels berthed at the Potomac River port of Alexandria.
Virginia Railway Express (VRE) (reporting mark VREX) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from Spotsylvania, Virginia , and the Manassas Line from Broad Run station ...
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.
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 ...