Washington & Old Dominion Railroad

Released on by David A. Guillaudeu
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  • Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Book Detail

  • Author : David A. Guillaudeu
  • Release Date : 2013
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 129
  • ISBN 13 : 0738597929
  • File Size : 53,53 MB
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Washington & Old Dominion Railroad by David A. Guillaudeu PDF Summary

Book Description: Discover the contribution and history of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad through pictures from the earliest days of building and development. The Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad laid track from Alexandria through Fairfax County and into Loudoun County towards the coalfields of West Virginia. In 1900, the Southern Railway, which had taken over the line, extended the railroad into Bluemont on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Washington & Old Dominion Railway leased the Southern Railway's line in 1912, went into receivership in 1932, and was reorganized into the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad in 1935. The employees excavated the roadbed by hand, built stations and electric locomotives, reconfigured passenger cars, replaced diesel motors, and rebuilt bridges. Eventually, public roads and a lack of shipping and receiving industries forced the railroad into abandonment. Through old photographs, Washington & Old Dominion Railroad explores the efforts that went into building, operating, and maintaining the railroad whose right-of-way has now become the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority's Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park.

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Washington & Old Dominion Railroad

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Discover the contribution and history of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad through pictures from the earliest days of building and development. The Alexand