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A 1901 map showing early trolley lines in Arlington County, Virginia Diagram of 1915 electric railroad routes near the later routes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, showing: * The Washington-Mount Vernon line of the Washington-Virginia Railway (the "Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon Electric Railroad"); * The Rosslyn branch of the Washington-Virginia Railway (to the east of ...
Map of Virginia's major cities and roads. The Virginia State Highway System is an integrated system of roads maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). As of 2005, the VDOT maintains 57,082 miles (91,865 km) of state highways — the third largest system in the United States, after Texas and North Carolina.
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 ...
This diagram shows active mainline railway stations, and is current as of August 2021. This is a route-map template for the List of Virginia railroads, a state passenger rail network. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}. For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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 ...
Triple Crossing in 1919. The Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia is one of two places in North America where three railroad lines cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being the BNSF operated Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City. Santa Fe Junction became a triple crossing after the Argentine Connection was completed in 2004.
The inner city company, Virginia Transit Company, was converted to become the government-owned Greater Richmond Transit (GRTC) in 1972. Privately owned commuter operators gradually discontinued services; the last privately owned suburban public route service was the Mechanicsville Bus Line route, which ended in June 2004.
Virginia Railway Express (VRE) (reporting mark VREX) is a commuter rail service that connects outlying small cities of Northern Virginia to Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C. It operates two lines which run during weekday rush hour only: the Fredericksburg Line from Spotsylvania, Virginia , and the Manassas Line from Broad Run station ...