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- Virginia_Central_Railroad abstract "The Virginia Central Railroad was an early railroad in the U.S. state of Virginia that operated between 1850 and 1868 from Richmond westward for 206 miles (332 km) to Covington. Chartered in 1836 as the Louisa Railroad by the Virginia General Assembly, the railroad began near the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad's line and expanded westward to Orange County, reaching Gordonsville by 1840. In 1849, the Blue Ridge Railroad was chartered to construct a line over the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Louisa Railroad which reached the base of the Blue Ridge in 1852. After a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Louisa Railroad was allowed to expand eastward from a point near Doswell to Richmond.Renamed as the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850, the railroad bypassed the under construction Blue Ridge Railroad via a temporary track built over Rockfish Gap. This connected the railroad's eastern division with its expanding line across the Blue Ridge in the Shenandoah Valley. Having reached Clifton Forge by 1857, the railroad began operating the completed Blue Ridge Railroad in 1858 and continued preparing for further expansion until the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861. As a prime target for Federal raids by Union Cavalry, the railroad faced significant action against it during the war. Although the war left the railroad with only a fraction of its line left operable, the railroad was running over its entire pre-war length by July 1865.After the war, both longtime president Edmund Fontaine and former Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham served as president of the Virginia Central and oversaw its expansion towards Covington. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was formed in 1868 from the merger of the Virginia Central Railroad and the Covington and Ohio Railroad, and had expanded westward to the Ohio River by 1873 after new financing from Collis P. Huntington was recruited. The new railroad (reorganized as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1878) expanded eastward in the 1880s via the Peninsula Subdivision to Newport News. The Chesapeake and Ohio operated for over one hundred years until it was reorganized through merger as CSX Transportation in the 1980s. Today, CSX, Amtrak, and the Buckingham Branch Railroad still use portions of the old Virginia Central line for freight and passenger rail service.".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad closingYear "1868".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad headquarter Richmond,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad location Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad openingYear "1850".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad thumbnail Virginia_Central_Map_1852_cropped.png?width=300.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad trackLength "331524.864".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageID "1474349".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageLength "38114".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageOutDegree "146".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageRevisionID "605451327".
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Allegheny_Mountains.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink American_Civil_War.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Amtrak.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Ansted,_West_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Army_of_the_Potomac.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Atlee,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Baldwin_Locomotive_Works.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Trevilian_Station.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Waynesboro,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Beaverdam_Depot.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Big_Four_(Central_Pacific_Railroad).
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Blue_Ridge_Mountains.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Blue_Ridge_Railroad_(1849-1870).
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Blue_Ridge_Railroad_(1849–70).
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Blue_Ridge_Tunnel.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Brookville_Tunnel.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Buckingham_Branch_Railroad.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink CSX_Transportation.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Cardinal_(train).
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Defunct_Virginia_railroads.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Predecessors_of_the_Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1868.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_companies_established_in_1850.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Category:Virginia_in_the_American_Civil_War.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Cavalry_in_the_American_Civil_War.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Ellet,_Jr..
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Charleston,_West_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Charlottesville,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railroad.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Church_Hill_Tunnel.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Claudius_Crozet.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Clifton_Forge,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Coal.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Coal_pier.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Collis_P._Huntington.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Collis_Potter_Huntington.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Confederate_States_of_America.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Covington,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Covington_and_Ohio_Railroad.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink David_Hunter.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Doswell,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink East_End_(Newport_News).
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink East_End_(Newport_News,_Virginia).
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Ord.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Fayette_County,_West_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink File:WCWickham.jpg.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink First_Transcontinental_Railroad.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Fitzhugh_Lee.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Foot_cavalry.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Fredericksburg,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Gordonsville,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Goshen,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Great_North_Mountain.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Greenwood_Tunnel.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Hampton_Roads.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Hampton_Roads,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Hanover_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Harrisonburg,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Hawks_Nest,_West_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Henrico_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Huntington,_West_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Jackson_River_(Virginia).
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink James_River.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink James_River_and_Kanawha_Canal.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Jubal_Early.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Kanawha_River.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Keswick,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Library_of_Congress.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Louisa_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Mechums_River.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Millboro,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Narrow-gauge_railway.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Narrow_gauge.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink New_River_Valley.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink New_York_City.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Newport_News,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Ohio_River.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Orange,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Orange_&_Alexandria_Railroad.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Orange_County,_Virginia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Orange_and_Alexandria_Railroad.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Overland_Campaign.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Peninsula_Campaign.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Peninsula_Extension.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Peninsula_Subdivision.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania.
- Virginia_Central_Railroad wikiPageWikiLink Philip_Sheridan.