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The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (colloquially referred to as the W&OD) was an intrastate short-line railroad located in Northern Virginia, United States. The railroad was a successor to the bankrupt Washington and Old Dominion Railway and to several earlier railroads, the first of which began operating in 1859. The railroad closed in 1968.
In 1979, the trail was extended 26 miles (42 km) westward from Falls Church to Goose Creek with the aid of a federal Rails-to-Trails grant, although it was only paved as far as Maple Avenue East (VA Route 123) in Vienna - a distance of 6 miles (10 km); and by 1979 Fairfax County had built Buckthorn Lane on a raised area across the right-of-way ...
South Cumberland State Park is a state park in the middle and southeast portions of Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau.. The park was established in 1978. It is a collection of eight discrete tracts scattered across Franklin, Marion and Grundy counties, formerly totaling approximately 30,899 acres (as of 2020). [1]
Tracy City is a town in Grundy County, Tennessee, United States. Incorporated in 1915, [6] the population was 1,481 at the 2010 census. Named after financier Samuel Franklin Tracy, the city developed out of railroad and mining interests after coal was found in 1840. [1] In 2010 the people of Tracy City elected a dead man, Carl Robin Geary, as ...
English: This is a locator map showing Grundy County in Tennessee. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
County Location mi km Destinations Notes; Grundy: Gruetli-Laager–Palmer line: 0.0: 0.0: SR 108 – Gruetli-Laager, Palmer: Western terminus 1.5: 2.4: Bridge over the Collins River: South Cumberland State Park: 5.1: 8.2: Savage Gulf State Natural Area (South Cumberland State Park) main entrance: Access road into park: Sequatchie: Cagle: 10.6: 17.1
In 2009, a trail extension was completed near Shirlington that not only linked the end of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail with the Four Mile Run Trail, but also allowed trail users to pass under the Shirley Highway (Interstate 395) and W. Glebe Road without having to ride on-street in Shirlington and Alexandria.
The Bluemont Junction Trail is a 1.2-mile (1.9 km) asphalt-paved rail trail in Arlington County, Virginia, United States, that the Arlington County government constructed along a former branch of the defunct Washington and Old Dominion Railroad. [1] The shared use path travels southwest from Ballston through Bluemont Junction Park to Bluemont ...