Washington & Old Dominion Railroad (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Arcadia Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	David A Guillaudeu
Foreword by:	Paul E McCray
Dimensions:	147 x 197 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	127
ISBN-13:	978-0-7385-9792-8
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Trains & railways: general interest Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-7385-9792-9
Barcode:	9780738597928

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