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Shenandoah Valley Railroad was a line completed on June 19, 1882, extending up the Shenandoah Valley from Hagerstown, Maryland through the West Virginia panhandle into Virginia to reach Roanoke, Virginia and to connect with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). The development of this railroad had considerable backing from the Pennsylvania ...
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad (reporting mark SV) is a shortline railroad operating 20.2 miles (32.5 km) of track between Staunton and Pleasant Valley, Virginia.The railroad interchanges with CSX and Buckingham Branch in Staunton and Norfolk Southern in Pleasant Valley. [2]
Jackson's Valley campaign, also known as the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862, was Confederate Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's spring 1862 campaign through the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia during the American Civil War. Employing audacity and rapid, unpredictable movements on interior lines, Jackson's 17,000 men marched 646 miles ...
By the time Kimball died in 1903, the railroad had attained the basic structure it would use for more than 60 years. In 1890 the N&W bought out the Shenandoah Valley Railroad. This gave the railroad a reach north of the Potomac River and the Virginia-Maryland border, and a line with territory reaching as far north as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Buckingham Branch Railroad (reporting mark BB) is a Class III short-line railroad operating over 275 miles (443 km) of historic and strategic trackage in Central Virginia. [1] Sharing overhead traffic with CSX and Amtrak, the company's headquarters are in Dillwyn, Virginia in ...
Shenandoah, Virginia: The line is a former N&W property and it was once part of the Shenandoah District, a former N&W line. [26] The Shenandoah District was also known as the Shenandoah Valley Line, Shenandoah Line or Hagerstown to Roanoke. [27] [28] [23] Norfolk District (formerly Lamberts Point to Crewe) Norfolk, Virginia: Crewe, Virginia
Shenandoah Valley Railroad refers to one of several railroads in the U.S. state of Virginia: Shenandoah Valley Railroad (short-line), a current short line. Shenandoah Valley Railroad (1867–1890), predecessor of the Norfolk and Western Railway. Shenandoah Valley Railway (1890), short-lived successor to the above.
Revel in a panorama of autumn tones as you traverse the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley, and the West Virginia countryside on Amtrak’s Cardinal, a route that meanders ...