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Virginia–Carolina Railway: Virginia Central Railroad: C&O: 1850 1868 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad: Virginia Central Railway: VC 1926 1983 N/A Virginia and Kentucky Railroad: SOU: 1852 1876 Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad: Virginia and Kentucky Railway: 1902 1916 Norton and Northern Railway: Virginia and Maryland Railroad: VAMD ...
Leased to Watco and operated as Kanawha River Railroad, LLC [19] New Connection Track: Norton Wye: Beech Fork Spur: Vulcan Middle Track: Virginia Division Pull-In Track: Former Virginia Division Altavista District: Abilene, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia: Former VGA line which was passed to the N&W. It assumed its current name under N&W ownership ...
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad map near Dublin Depot. The Virginia and Tennessee stimulated rapid economic growth in the counties through which it ran, and also changed their political alignment to more closely resemble that in Richmond and the Tidewater area, rather than of other Virginia counties in the Appalachian mountain region (much less ...
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 ...
North Carolina and Virginia Railroad; R. Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway; S. Shenandoah Valley Railroad (short-line) V. Virginia Railway Express;
1891 map of Richmond and Danville Railroad and connections Piedmont Air Line System advertisement 1882 1893 map (also showing the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad and connections) With the support of Virginia Governor Francis H. Pierpont , Algernon S. Buford became president of the 140-mile (230 km) R&D on September 13, 1865.
Norfolk and Western magazine ad with system map, 1948. The Norfolk and Western Railway (reporting mark NW), [1] commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.
The Southside Railroad was formed in Virginia in 1846. Construction was begun in 1849 and completed in 1854. [1] [2] The 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [3] railroad connected City Point, a port on the James River with the farm country south and west of Petersburg, Virginia, to Lynchburg, Virginia, a distance of about 132 miles (212 km).