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The Virginian and Ohio is both the name of a fictional railroad company created by W. Allen McClelland (1934-2022) and the HO scale model railroad he built near Dayton, Ohio featuring this railroad. [1] The V&O is famous in the model railroading world for setting a new standard for freelanced (fictional) model railroads designed to operate in a ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( reporting marks C&O, CO) was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century. Led by industrialist Collis P. Huntington, it reached from Virginia's capital city of Richmond to the Ohio River by 1873, where the railroad town (and later city) of ...
Seaboard System Railroad: Clinchfield Northern Railway: ACL/ L&N: 1911 1912 Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway: Clover Hill Railroad: 1841 1877 Brighthope Railway: Consolidated Rail Corporation: CR 1976 1999 Norfolk Southern Railway: Covington and Ohio Railroad: C&O: 1853 1868 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad: Cumberland Valley Railroad: PRR ...
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ( reporting mark BO) was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States. It operated as B&O from 1830 until 1987, when it was merged into the Chessie System; its lines are today controlled by CSX Transportation.
Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Virginian Railway ( reporting mark VGN) was a Class I railroad located in Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. The VGN was created to transport high quality "smokeless" bituminous coal from southern West Virginia to port at Hampton Roads .
Cleveland and Mahoning Railway: Ohio and West Virginia Railway: C&O: 1878 1881 Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway: Painesville, Canton and Bridgeport Narrow Gauge Railroad: W&LE: 1875 1880 Chagrin Falls and Southern Railroad: Painesville and Hudson Railroad: B&O: 1852 1870 Painesville and Youngstown Railroad: Painesville, Wooster and ...
72 miles (116 kilometres) The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad (colloquially referred to as the W&OD and sometimes the "Virginia Creeper") was an intrastate short-line railroad located in Northern Virginia, United States. The railroad was a successor to the bankrupt Washington and Old Dominion Railway and to several earlier railroads, the ...
Track gauge. 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in) [1] Length. 206 miles (332 km) [2] 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 ...