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- Fast_Flying_Virginian abstract "The Fast Flying Virginian (FFV) was a named passenger train of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.The FFV was inaugurated on May 11, 1889, and ran until May 12, 1968. The train operated on a daily daytime schedule, being carried from Jersey City, NJ—Penn Station in Manhattan was years in the future—as a Pennsylvania Railroad train to Washington, D.C. (after 1908 to Washington Union Station) and, as a C&O train, from there to Cincinnati, OH (after 1933 calling at the Union Terminal). The train operated westbound as #3 and eastbound as #4. The train ran behind C&O locomotives beyond Washington, DC, first to Alexandria, VA over trackage rights from the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac to Alexandria, VA, there changing to tracks of the Southern Railway (now part of Norfolk Southern). In Orange, VA, C&O trains left Southern property to turn onto what is now a transfer track between Orange and Gordonsville, VA, but this track was originally part of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, which continued through Gordonsville on to Charlottesville. This segment of track became part of the C&O, as did the track through Gordonsville, which before becoming part of the C&O was the Virginia Central Railroad. Northeast of Orange, portions of the Orange and Alexandria railroad became part of the Southern; the present-day Norfolk Southern tracks between Orange and Charlottesville were built after the Civil War. When the FFV was new, the transfer track from Southern property at Orange joined the C&O main line from Newport News, VA at Gordonsville, and proceeded on them to Charlottesville. About a mile west of the C&O station in Charlottesville, the C&O tracks crossed the Southern line. The Southern station was, and is, a union station, with platforms for both main lines; a few C&O trains, but not seemingly the FFV, stopped at both stations. From Charlottesville, the FFV continued west over the Blue Ridge Mountains and North Mountain to West Virginia, along the New River Gorge, and finally crossing the Ohio River into Ohio at Cincinnati. (The \"Ohio\" of \"Chesapeake and Ohio\" is the river, not the state.)Major station stops included Alexandria, VA, Charlottesville, VA, Charleston, WV, Huntington, WV, Ashland, KY, and Cincinnati, OH.Charlottesville, besides being a junction point for all traffic going to or coming from Washington, was also where the FFV from Washington and an extension of the train from Newport News were combined. This separate section was labeled in timetables as #43 westbound or #44 eastbound.The Fast Flying Virginian operated alongside the later George Washington and the Sportsman, being one of the C&O's most prestigious passenger trains and at the outset a prestigious train absolutely. It was the first train in the C&O system to operate with a dining car, and the original consist of the FFV was one of the first trains in the country to feature cars with enclosed \"vestibules\", enabling safe and convenient passage from car to car. Unfortunately for the FFV, and the majority of American railroads, passenger trains become less popular over time, as the public embraced the automobile and the airplane. By the mid-1960s, the C&O, like other railroads, depended on mail and express packages to keep passenger trains marginally profitable (while being able to claim, thanks to the accounting rules, that passenger trains lost money). In 1967, when the U.S. Postal Service canceled all their mail contracts with the railroads, the C&O like all railroads really was losing money on passenger operations. This spelled the end of the FFV, which made its final run on May 12, 1968. Actually, it spelled the end for privately operated passenger service in the US, to be replaced by Amtrak, which came in existence almost exactly two years after the FFV made its last run.Amtrak's thrice-weekly train called the Cardinal (##50 and 51), follows the route of the FFV from New York Penn Station to Cincinnati via Washington, D.C. before continuing on to Chicago, IL via Indianapolis, IN. The 23 October 1890 wreck of the FFV, near Hinton, West Virginia, was immortalized in the folk ballad \"Engine One-Forty-Three.\"".
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageExternalLink www.cohs.org.
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- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageOutDegree "42".
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageRevisionID "621993309".
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Alexandria,_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Ashland,_Kentucky.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Blue_Ridge_Mountains.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Named_passenger_trains_of_the_United_States.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Kentucky.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Ohio.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Washington,_D.C..
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_West_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_services_discontinued_in_1968.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_services_introduced_in_1889.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Charleston,_West_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati_Museum_Center_at_Union_Terminal.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Engine_One-Forty-Three.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink George_Washington_(train).
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Gordonsville,_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Hinton,_West_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Huntington,_West_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Indianapolis.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Jersey_City,_New_Jersey.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink New_River_(Kanawha_River).
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Newport_News,_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Norfolk_Southern_Railway.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink North_Mountain_(Virginia-West_Virginia).
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Ohio_River.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Orange,_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Orange_and_Alexandria_Railroad.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania_Railroad.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Richmond,_Fredericksburg_and_Potomac_Railroad.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Southern_Railway_(U.S.).
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Sportsman_(train).
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Trackage_rights.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Train.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Union_Station_(Washington,_D.C.).
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Postal_Service.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Virginia_Central_Railroad.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLink Washington,_D.C..
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fast Flying Virginian".
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:C&O_Named_Trains.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Italic_title.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Railway.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Named_passenger_trains_of_the_United_States.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Kentucky.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Ohio.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Washington,_D.C..
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_West_Virginia.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Railway_services_discontinued_in_1968.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian subject Category:Railway_services_introduced_in_1889.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian hypernym Train.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian type Train.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian type Railroad.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian type Service.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian type Train.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian comment "The Fast Flying Virginian (FFV) was a named passenger train of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.The FFV was inaugurated on May 11, 1889, and ran until May 12, 1968. The train operated on a daily daytime schedule, being carried from Jersey City, NJ—Penn Station in Manhattan was years in the future—as a Pennsylvania Railroad train to Washington, D.C. (after 1908 to Washington Union Station) and, as a C&O train, from there to Cincinnati, OH (after 1933 calling at the Union Terminal).".
- Fast_Flying_Virginian label "Fast Flying Virginian".
- Fast_Flying_Virginian sameAs Q5436921.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian sameAs m.0g9w2wm.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian sameAs Q5436921.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian wasDerivedFrom Fast_Flying_Virginian?oldid=621993309.
- Fast_Flying_Virginian isPrimaryTopicOf Fast_Flying_Virginian.