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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 ...
Modeled after the Chessie System and the SCL/L&N Family Lines, each railroad would retain its own corporate identity and color scheme, but would follow a standardized layout for paint schemes. The V&O would keep its deep blue and white, the AM would adopt a bright red and yellow, and the VM would go with yellow and deep green.
Virginian Railway hopper car #107768, stored offsite. Steam crane #527665 with boom car #514902. Crane scrapped in 2017, flatcar stored offsite. Virginian Railway 250-ton wrecking derrick B-37 #40037, Southern Railway boxcar #33348; Southern Railway Big John hopper #8638; Norfolk Southern flatcar. Used as a stage for events; 3 Norfolk & Western ...
Because of the Harrison Engines' Virginian green and gold paint scheme, they were signified as the First Ladies of the Pacifics around the SOU system. [15] [16] The final Ps-4s were built in April 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, consisting of only five locomotives for SOU, Nos. 1405-1409. [3]
Virginia–Carolina Railway: Virginian Railway: VGN N&W: 1907 1959 Norfolk and Western Railway: Virginian Terminal Railway: N&W: 1907 1936 Virginian Railway: Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad: RF&P: 1862 1868 Alexandria and Washington Railroad: Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great Southern Railway: SOU: 1873 1880 Virginia ...
A Southern Pacific locomotive (post-1959 gray and red paint scheme where the nose of the diesel locomotive was painted in scarlet red), [16] or the Amtrak Phase I paint scheme: A reddish-orange nose and then the Amtrak Chevron logo on the side of the locomotive. Bluebonnet One of two Santa Fe paint schemes.
Only one 2-8-8-8-4 was ever built, a Mallet-type for the Virginian Railway in 1916. [1] Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, it became the only example of their class XA, so named due to the experimental nature of the locomotive. Like the same railroad's large articulated electrics and the Erie Railroad 2-8-8-8-2s, it was nicknamed "Triplex".
EMD GP7 (BB 101, formerly of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad that was eventually refurbished with its original RF&P paint scheme and number) x6 EMD GP16 (BB 1, BB 2, BB 3, BB 8 and BB 9, BB 8 also retained its original paint scheme for a while after purchase by the BB) Baldwin RS-4-TC (BB 4) x3 EMD GP40 (BB 5, BB 6 and BB 7)