THIS JUST IN, from "Virginians for High Speed Rail".... Virginia Submits Pre-Applications for More than $2 Billion of High Speed Rail Projects from Federal...
Regarding the "Lost Engines of Roanoke"... http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=10730352 Read down a bit about a new museum breaking ground in Portsmouth...
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Russ Im guessing its P-Town Ohio. Never heard of that tv station and cant imagine why the good ole N&W wanna do anything in our P-town rather than Norfolk, but...
Does anyone know of the origins of this piece of equipment, or what happened to it? Thanks! Russell Underwood [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Virginia short line to add to RailComm DOC® system (July 22, 2009 news blub from RAILWAY AGE Magazine:) ____________________________________________ Suffolk,...
Bear with me for a rather lengthy description of how NS got /very/ busy in Petersburg this afternoon (times are approximate): 1700: 824 calls "Approach" at...
Last Thursday morning just before noon there was a short, 13 cars, rock train heading east on the NF&D. Power was 8784,6666,8769. John D. Friis Franklin ...
I missed the CSX/NCVA interchange yesterday, but caught NCVA's train to Ahoskie. A railroad employee who was stopped trackside in his truck at Milwaukee (NC,...
CSX made their second trip over the Commonwealth rails on August 4, 2009. The first trip was made around 2 am on August 1. Pictures of the second trip have...
My family and I took the long way to Nags Head, NC last week, which afforded us (well... me) the opportunity to catch the North Carolina & Virginia on their...
Kevin, If the loaded, southbound covered hoppers you saw on the NCVA are carrying "Sodium Carbonate" (also called "Soda" or "Potash"), they would most likely...
Thanks for the info. I don't know what the cars were loaded with, but they were headed for Ahoskie as the train came through Aulander. They did not appear to...
Hi all,....good catch, Kevin. That train was 90Lx7E and barely made it up the long hill at Conway....CSX had brought 154 cars that day so there were another...
Gotta' wonder if this thing will roll down the RF&P. Any updates on the possible move would be appreciated. Anzio Annie http://www.ordmusfound.org/leopold.html...
VBTES Public Meetings HRT is in the early stages of conducting an evaluation of transit options for the community. The Virginia Beach Transit Extension Study...
Sept. 11 news blurb from RAILWAY AGE Magazine: ______________________________________________ NS: Shared freight/passenger route costs Virginia less Norfolk...
Bill Whitbeck just called and reported the Commonwealth has a locomotive with several ballast cars dumping ballast on the new ROW in the I664 median near...
I don't drive by the brewery very often but the last few times I have there have been two units tied up on the siding near the CSX office. Are these units...