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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Potomac ... West Virginia / Maryland Paw Paw Bridge WV 9 MD 51: Paw Paw / Allegany County: abandoned rail bridge:
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 ...
As wharf traffic declined and Alexandria became more suburban, daily trains through the tunnel decreased to two a day. One, the Southern train to the PEPCO plant, last ran on November 25, 1969. This was a symbolic run, made at walking speed with children hanging from the train and dignitaries on hand.
Before the electric trolleys, there was the horsecar line of the Alexandria Passenger Railway (APR), which served Alexandria, Virginia, for just over a year in the 1870s.. Starting on July 12, 1873, the APR ran two horse-drawn cars on tracks from the Ferry Wharf, west on King Street and then south on Peyton Street to the old stone bridge over Hooff's R