Rails to the Blue Ridge
Author | : Herbert H. Harwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park (Va.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Herbert H. Harwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park (Va.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herbert H. Harwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780615283111 |
Author | : Herbert H. Harwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mercator (pseud.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frankie C. Johnson |
Publisher | : Xlibris Us |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2018-06-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781984533098 |
See you next time! Watch out for more Adventures on the Blue Ridge Rail Road.
Author | : George B. Lythgoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary E. Lyons |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 162585630X |
In 1849, Virginia began a bold railroad expansion toward the Ohio River and its lucrative trade connections. The project's plan covered 423 miles and called for piercing two mountain chains with three railroads. The Blue Ridge Railroad was the shortest of these but crossed the most mountainous terrain. At times, hired slaves, who prepared the tracks, and Irish immigrants, who blasted the tunnels, faced challenges that seemed almost insurmountable. Many were killed by explosions and falling rock. Those deaths often resulted in labor strikes. The unrest slowed progress and haunted chief engineer Claudius Crozet for seven years. In this first full-length history of the Blue Ridge Railroad, award-winning author Mary E. Lyons uses a wealth of historical documents to describe construction on what Crozet called "dangerous ground."
Author | : Blue Ridge Rail Road Company (S.C.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1853* |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David A. Guillaudeu |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738597929 |
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.
Author | : Mary E. Lyons |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1625849524 |
The true story of the construction of the historic Crozet railroad tunnel—as seen through the eyes of three Irish immigrant families who helped build it. In one of the greatest engineering feats of the time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. More than a century and a half later, the tunnel stands as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, but the stories and lives of those who built it are the true lasting triumph. Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger poured into America resolved to find something to call their own. They would persevere through life in overcrowded shanties and years of blasting through rock to see the tunnel to completion. In this intriguing history, Mary E. Lyons follows three Irish families in their struggle to build Crozet’s famed tunnel—and their American dream. Includes photos and illustrations