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1915 map showing the route of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Engine No. 18, Baldwin 2-8-2 built in October 1914. Photo at Tunnel #4, 2011 V&T train near collapsed Tunnel #1, around 1940, and the same view in 2014, both photos showing the shoofly (detour) around the collapsed tunnel
The V&T moved also key raw materials: copper from mines near Cleveland, Tennessee, lead from mines near Bristol, salt from Saltville, Virginia and saltpeter from caves throughout the region. Union forces finally captured much of the railroad and destroyed tracks and rolling stock in late 1864, although service was periodically interrupted by a ...
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Templates for railway lines of the United States]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page.
OpenRailwayMap (ORM) is an online collaborative mapping project developing a worldwide railway map using technology based on the OpenStreetMap project. The project is part of the OpenStreetMap database, and acts as a renderer for the existing OpenStreetMap database to include additional information for railroad lines worldwide. [2]
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Adjust city labels to try to make them readable without 500% zoom. Convert some effectively infinite-curvature smooth nodes into corner nodes so that they actually render (e.g.,at the Montreal terminus). Remove needless "Legend" text (if readers can't tell it's a legend, we've failed at making an understandable map). 14:18, 23 September 2023
A 4-6-0 “ten wheeler”, it was the last locomotive delivered new to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad (V&T), and the third ten-wheeler delivered, behind its twin #26 in 1907, and the so-called "Second #25" in 1905. [3]: 69–74 #27 served the V&T dependably and without incident throughout its operational life.
{{Infobox rail}} is used to create an infobox on articles about railway companies; |name= is the only mandatory parameter. {{Infobox rail line}} is used for railway lines; this template is sometimes used on articles about both a company and a line (e.g. Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway).