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Steam operations on the VBR ended on August 1, 1963, with ex-U.S. Army 0-6-0 #9 being the honor of pulling the last steam powered freight train. [3] The line was abandoned in 1981. In the early 21st century, part of the roadbed was being developed as a rails-to-trails project, the Blue Ridge Railway Trail.
Southern Railway 385 is a preserved class "H-4" 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive. Built in November 1907 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, originally for the Southern Railway's Richmond Division, she was transferred to the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway and renumbered to 6. In 1956, she was put on standby service before officially being ...
After World War II the locomotive was no longer needed by the War Department and was sold to the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway on February 17, 1947. [3] The locomotive was used in freight operations until August 1, 1963 when it was retired from revenue service, after that, the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway made the change over to diesel locomotives ...
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.
After the Civil War, the Virginia Central and former Blue Ridge Railroads became part of Collis P. Huntington's Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and helped complete Virginia's longtime dream of linking its navigable rivers of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with the Ohio River, which led to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. [citation needed]
The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway initially was built to haul chestnut for lumber out of the heavily timbered Piney River area to local mills until World War I. The chestnut blight wiped out much of the timbered areas. However, the railroad later served several quarries in the area where titanium dioxide and aplite were mined. [2]
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 0-6-0 remained a common type for lighter use and on branch lines, but the 0-8-0 largely disappeared in favour of the better-riding 2-8-0. The first 2-8-0 to be built in Britain was the Great Western Railway 's 2800 Class , with 84 locomotives built between 1903 and 1919, followed by a further 83 of the very similar GWR 2884 Class between ...