The Virginian Railroad was a Class I railroad located in Virginia, West Virginia, and surrounding states. The railroad was originally founded in 1907 by industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers and was primarily used to transport coal from mines in West Virginia to ports on the Atlantic coast for export.
The Virginian Railroad map covered an extensive area and included branches and spurs to various mining towns, industrial sites, and other destinations. The primary route of the railroad ran from Sewell's Point on the Chesapeake Bay to Deepwater, West Virginia, a distance of approximately 400 miles.
The Virginian Railroad maintained an extensive system of yards, shops, and stations throughout its service area. Notable locations included the massive Princeton Yard in West Virginia and the coal-loading facility at Lambert's Point in Norfolk, Virginia, which used a gravity-fed system to load ships with coal directly from rail cars.
After years of financial struggles and declining traffic, the Virginian Railroad was merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1959. Today, many sections of the original Virginian Railroad have been abandoned or converted to rail trails, but some portions are still in use by various freight carriers.
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