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Built in 1836–1837, the B&O's first crossing over the Potomac was an 830-foot (250 m) covered wood truss. [2] It was the only rail crossing of the Potomac River until after the American Civil War. The single-track bridge, composed of six river spans plus a span over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II.
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 ...
Bridge Route Location Coordinates Virginia SR 640 (Blue Grass Valley Road) : Hightown: SR 641: SR 640 (Blue Grass Valley Road) : Blue Grass: US 220 (Potomac River Road) : Forks of Waters
Image Crossing Opened Coordinates Notes Arlington–Alexandria George Washington Memorial Parkway / Mount Vernon Trail: 1980 [1: WMATA Yellow and Blue Lines: 1983 CSX Transportation RF&P Subdivision
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.
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 ...
Crossing Carries Location Built Coordinates Image Notes Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel: I-64 / US 60: Hampton Roads to Norfolk: 1957 36°59′14″N 76°18′20″W Replaced ferries from Willoughby Spit to Old Point Comfort and Pine Beach to Small Boat Harbor: Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel: I-664: Suffolk, Virginia to Newport News ...
The bridge originally connected the Richmond and Danville Railroad to the Richmond and York River Railroad both of which became part of the Southern Railway System. The southern end of the bridge runs beneath what is today the Manchester Floodwall Walk Observation Area. On the north shore it leads to the lowest section of the Triple Crossing.