The Virginian Railway ( reporting mark VGN) was a Class I railroad located in Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. The VGN was created to transport high quality "smokeless" bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to port at Hampton Roads . History Virginia railroad map Click to see large Description: This map shows cities, towns, counties and railroads in Virginia. You may download, print or use the above map for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes. Attribution is required.
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4 Feet, 8 ½ Inches Sewall's Point/Norfolk, Virginia - Suffolk - Roanoke - Princeton, West Virginia - Elmore - Deepwater, West Virginia Elmore - Gilbert/Glen Rogers Mullens - Beckley - Cranberry Pax - Tamroy/Glen Jean Oak Hill Junction - Oak Hill/Carlisle/Lochgelly The first railroad in Virginia, known as the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad, was chartered in 1836 and completed in 1838. This marked the beginning of a new era for transportation in the state. Virginian Railway 2-8-2 #447 (Class MB) works local service in Norfolk, Virginia during February, 1954. American-Rails.com collection. Virginia railroads date back to 1830 when the Petersburg Railroad was chartered to connect Petersburg, Virginia with Garysburg, North Carolina. the Virginian Railroad took a different route east of Roanoke than the Norfolk and Western Source: Library of Congress, Railway mail map of Virginia (by Earl P. Hopkins, 1910) The Virginian Railway was built as a coal-hauling line from West Virginia to Sewell Point at Norfolk. Two coal piers there loaded coal onto ships for export.
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Overview Map - Virginia Railway Express Rail Time Interactive System Map Train Icon Legend On-Time | Delayed | Lost Communications Click train icon above to zoom in, or select a train here: Access the detailed map here: Detailed Map Can't find your train? Check our Manual Tracking Train Status Page Shows the Virginian Railway from Princeton, W.V. to Suffolk, Va. Also shows coal territory and timber belt. Text on verso: Report of I.C. White, State Geologist of West Virginia, April 3, 1912 -- Extracts from report of W.H. Coverdale, consulting engineer, New York. Identifier: 06_01_011012 Call #: G3881.P3 1912 .M37 Barcode: 39999065680363 The Tide Virginia Railway Express Washington Metro Private carriers Fort Eustis Military Railroad (USAX) Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company (NNSX) Norfolk Naval Shipyard (USNX) Defunct railroads Note: railroads that existed only in present-day West Virginia before 1863 are not listed. The data contained in this shapefile are derived from digital data provided by the Virginia Geographic Information Network (VGIN) and hardcopy maps provided by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Rail location has been verified using high resolution Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP) aerial photography.
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VGIN Administrator Virginia Geographic Information Network Download Summary The purpose of this data is to provide a geographic representation of the location of existing rail in Virginia. This subway-style map tells the history of some of Virginia's railways in 1921. Trains that used these tracks ran both express and local, and there were branches that ran as far out as Warrenton and beyond Fredericksburg. The map's purple line is the Potomac, Fredericksburg, & Piedmont (PF&P) line, whose acronym was sometimes jokingly said.
The Virginian Railway Heritage Trail has been formed to locate and identify surviving structures and facilities of the old Virginian railroad which was merged into the Norfolk & Western railroad in 1959. Rail Time Interactive Detailed Map. Train Icon Legend. On-Time | Delayed | Lost Communications: Click Here to.
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. 700 Boylston St, Copley Square, Boston MA 02116 617-859-2387 The Central Virginia Railfan Page offers information on lines inside the "service area" indicated on the main map. For information on other lines, try the links page or here . Return to Central Virginia Railfan Page or to a specific area below:
