1909-1959
25 Jan 23:
The Virginian stopped on the north side of the Suffolk Seaboard Station. The Station is renovated and open today as a Museum, with modern day CSX running on the southside tracks. Some of the Virginian roadbed has been repurposed into a hike and bike trail.
22 Jan 23:
Archer, William. The Virginian Railway. Arcadia Press.
16 Jan 23:
Seems if want to have a luxury yacht all we need to do is start up a little railroad, using some of our spare oil baron money. KANAWHA would be a good tender for our small boat Armada.
"Kanawha was a 471-ton steam-powered luxury yacht initially built in 1899 for millionaire industrialist and financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840–1909). One of the key men in the Standard Oil Trust, Rogers was one of the last of the robber barons of the Gilded Age in the United States. Rogers was a major developer of coal and railroad properties in West Virginia along the Kanawha River., including the Virginian Railway. Aboard the Kanawha, he frequently hosted his friends, including American humorist Mark Twain and black educator Booker T. Washington."
What is more interesting about KANAWHA is her second and third careers. We'll get into the Virginian more as we explore our new territory.
FMI:
Merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1959, a large portion of the former VGN remains in service in the 21st century for the Norfolk Southern Railway.
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