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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 ...
The Virginian EL-C, later known as the New Haven EF-4 and E33, was an electric locomotive built for the Virginian Railway by General Electric in August 1955. They were the first successful production locomotives to use Ignitron (mercury arc) rectifier technology.
The EL-2B locomotives were built at General Electric's Erie works in 1948. Numbered 125–128, they were the largest two-unit electric locomotives used in North America. The locomotives were retired and sold for scrap shortly after the 1959 merger of the Virginian with the Norfolk and Western Railway. None of the 4 examples built have survived.
Pages in category "Virginian Railway locomotives" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. 2-10-10-2; V.
The XA was sent back to Baldwin in 1920 and was rebuilt as two locomotives, a 2-8-8-0, and a 2-8-2. Unlike their predecessor which lasted only a few years in service, these two locomotives remained in service until 1953. However, neither of the two locomotives were preserved.
Two classes of 2-6-6-6 locomotives were built: the sixty H-8 "Allegheny" class locomotives for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) between 1941 and 1948, [1] and the eight AG "Blue Ridge" class locomotives for the Virginian Railway in 1945. [2] (The locomotives were Series AG on the Virginian. This was an abbreviation for "Articulated, Series ...
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1910, it is the last remaining steam engine from the Virginian Railway. Norfolk & Western Class M2c #1151; Norfolk & Western Class G-1 #6. Built in 1897 by Baldwin, it is the museum's oldest piece of equipment and one of the oldest Norfolk and Western locomotives still in existence.
Norfolk & Western Railway locomotives: LC-1 (1-B+B-1)+(1-B+B-1) ... Former Virginian Railway locomotives (acquired 1959) EL-3A: 1-D-1: 100ABC to 111ABC: Alco ...