Virginia Central Railroad (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Virginia Central Railroad was chartered as the Louisa Railroad in 1836 by the Virginia Board of Public Works and had its name changed to Virginia Central Railroad in 1850. It connected Richmond with the Orange and Alexandria Railroad at Gordonsville in 1854, and had expanded westward past the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley as the American Civil War began in 1861. Edmund Fontaine was the president of the Virginia Central Railroad. Heavily damaged, it was rebuilt after the War, and merged with the Covington and Ohio Railroad in 1868 to form the new Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O). Under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, the C&O line was completed to the Ohio River in 1873, and the Peninsula Extension was built east from Richmond to reached the harbor of Hampton Roads at Newport News by 1882.