Author: David A. Guillaudeu
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738597929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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.
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad
Author: David A. Guillaudeu
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738597929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738597929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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.
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Revisited
Author: David A. Guillaudeu and Paul E. McCray
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467116386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad covered the railroad's corporate history, construction, and operation. This second volume expands the coverage with a geographic focus on four locations: Rosslyn, Great Falls, Leesburg, and Purcellville. The images within offer a look at the railroad's feed and grain business, railfan-type views of equipment, and a visual record of methods used to maintain the right-of-way and place equipment back on the tracks. Additionally, this work offers a history of the conversion of the right-of-way into the very popular Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park. Learn about the history of mills and their place in the local economy. See how the Burro crane was a jack of all trades. Look under the hood and inside the cab to imagine what it was like to be an engineer on one of the railroad's Baldwin-Westinghouse electric freight locomotives.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467116386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad covered the railroad's corporate history, construction, and operation. This second volume expands the coverage with a geographic focus on four locations: Rosslyn, Great Falls, Leesburg, and Purcellville. The images within offer a look at the railroad's feed and grain business, railfan-type views of equipment, and a visual record of methods used to maintain the right-of-way and place equipment back on the tracks. Additionally, this work offers a history of the conversion of the right-of-way into the very popular Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park. Learn about the history of mills and their place in the local economy. See how the Burro crane was a jack of all trades. Look under the hood and inside the cab to imagine what it was like to be an engineer on one of the railroad's Baldwin-Westinghouse electric freight locomotives.
The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
Author: Ames William Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad
Author: David A. Guillaudeu
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN: 9781531666088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN: 9781531666088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
Author: Ames William Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780926984004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780926984004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Rails to the Blue Ridge
Author: Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Photographs of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Comprehensive listing of archived photographs of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad. Full metadata(location, objects included, year, point of storage, research reference number) included.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Comprehensive listing of archived photographs of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad. Full metadata(location, objects included, year, point of storage, research reference number) included.
Rails to the Blue Ridge
Author: Herbert Hawley Harwood (Jr)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615114538
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615114538
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park Trail Guide
Author: Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
The Future of the Washington & Old Dominion
Author: Eugene M. Scheel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad up to the late 1960s and a proposal to convert the line into a suburban rapid transit system.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
History of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad up to the late 1960s and a proposal to convert the line into a suburban rapid transit system.