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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 ...
Map of Virginia's major cities and roads. The Virginia State Highway System is an integrated system of roads maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). As of 2005, the VDOT maintains 57,082 miles (91,865 km) of state highways — the third largest system in the United States, after Texas and North Carolina.
Still exists as a lessor of the Norfolk Southern Railway: Virginia and Tennessee Railroad: N&W: 1849 1871 Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad: Virginia Western Coal and Iron Railway: N&W: 1894 1898 Virginia–Carolina Railway: Virginian Railway: VGN N&W: 1907 1959 Norfolk and Western Railway: Virginian Terminal Railway: N&W: 1907 1936 ...
The secondary roads system in Virginia was formed in 1932, when the financial pressures of the Great Depression prompted the state to take over most county roads through the Byrd Road Act. Virginia's independent cities were not included, but all the counties in Virginia were given the option of turning this responsibility over to the state ...
The road passes through several small towns that built up at stops along the railroad line. US 460 from I-81 at Christiansburg west to Pikeville, Kentucky, including the piece in West Virginia, is Corridor Q of the Appalachian Development Highway System. From West Virginia east to I-81, US 460 also is part of the proposed I-73. [1] [2] [3]
A 1901 map showing early trolley lines in Arlington County, Virginia Diagram of 1915 electric railroad routes near the later routes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, showing: * The Washington-Mount Vernon line of the Washington-Virginia Railway (the "Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon Electric Railroad"); * The Rosslyn branch of the Washington-Virginia Railway (to the east of ...
The road was named for the former Warwick County, Virginia, one of the original eight shires of Virginia which consolidated with the City of Newport News in 1958 and assumed the better-known name. Warwick County was named in 1634 for Robert Rich (1587–1658), second Earl of Warwick and a prominent member of the Virginia Company of London , the ...
Gordon Boulevard / Ox Road crossing of the Occoquan River at the Prince William–Fairfax County border. SR 123 begins at an intersection with US 1 (Richmond Highway) between the Woodbridge station serving Amtrak and the Fredericksburg Line of Virginia Railway Express station and US 1's bridge over the Occoquan River in Woodbridge.