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The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was an historic 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [1] railroad in the Southern United States, much of which is incorporated into the modern Norfolk Southern Railway. It played a strategic role in supplying the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad (ETV&G) was a rail transport system that operated in the southeastern United States during the late 19th century. Created with the consolidation of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad in 1869, the ETV&G played an important role in connecting East Tennessee and other isolated parts of Southern ...
The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company was incorporated under a special act of Tennessee on January 27, 1848. [1]The company built 130.7 miles (210.3 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) [2] gauge railroad line between Knoxville, Tennessee and Bristol, Tennessee between 1850 and 1856.
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 1977 1981 Eastern Shore Railroad ...
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was built through Christiansburg in 1857. Originally planned to go through the town center, it was rerouted to the north due to the concerns of town leaders. A train station was built in Cambria (which was a separate municipality until 1964). Much of the railroad was destroyed by Union forces during the Civil ...
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was built through Bedford in 1857; stations at Bedford were served for over a century. Even as local service petered out in the 1960s, the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) continued to run the crack Norfolk–Cincinnati Pocahontas and the local station counterpart on the same route, the Powhatan Arrow.
Mt. Airy, Wytheville, and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad in 1856. Wythe County is located in southwestern Virginia near the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was created in 1790, and named after George Wythe. [2] Wythe was a legal mentor to Thomas Jefferson during the 1760s, and signed the Declaration of Independence. [3]
The Southern Terminal is a former railway complex located at 306 West Depot Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.The complex, which includes a passenger terminal and express depot adjacent to a large railyard, was built in 1903 by the Southern Railway.