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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 .
Known as the "first railroad war", the American Civil War devastated the South's railroads and economy. In 1862, the Richmond and York River Railroad — acquired after the war by the R&D — played a crucial role in George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. In 1862, the R&D employed 400 laborers, 50 train hands, 30 carpenters, and 20 blacksmiths.
High Bridge near Farmville, Virginia in the 1850s. The Southside Railroad was important to the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865). ). Ravaged by the war, it was rebuilt and later became an important part of Norfolk and Western and Norfolk Southern's coal route from the mountains to port at Hampt
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. [3]
The Confederate Memorial in [[Templeton, Virginia]] Templeton: Army of Northern Virginia Memorial Flag located off of I-95 and Highway 301 Is a large Confederate Battle Flag put up by the VA Flaggers accompanied by a Stars and Bars flag and a South Carolina State Flag also on the monument is a sign that says “CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA ...
Virginia Central Railroad: Louisville and Nashville Railroad: L&N, LN L&N 1887 1983 Seaboard System Railroad: Lynchburg Belt Line and Connecting Railway: N&W: 1907 1910 Norfolk and Western Railway: Lynchburg and Danville Railroad: SOU: 1866 1872 Virginia and North Carolina Railroad: Lynchburg and Durham Railroad: N&W: 1887 1896 Norfolk ...
Fairfax Station Railroad Museum; Virginia Railroad Cities; Civil War photographs of the Orange & Alexandria at the Library of Congress; 1851 map; 1854 map; 1861 map "Map of Warrenton Junction, Orange and Alexandria R.R., Virginia shewing destruction of R.R. by enemy, October 1863."
The company built and initially operated 39 miles (63 km) of railroad line between Richmond, Virginia and West Point, Virginia on the York River. The railroad prospered during the first year of the American Civil War but was wrecked during the Peninsula Campaign. It was rebuilt after the Civil War.