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...
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Chesapeake and Ohio Greenbrier (category Preserved steam locomotives of Virginia)
trains for the C&O Railway such as the George Washington and the Fast Flying Virginian. All retired by the mid 1950s, only 614 survives and is on display...
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terminated in either Washington, D.C. or Newport News, Virginia. These featured the Fast Flying Virginian, George Washington, and the Sportsman. Into the late...
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Chesapeake and Ohio 614 (category Preserved steam locomotives of Virginia)
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway such as the George Washington and the Fast Flying Virginian. Retired from active service in the mid 1950s, No. 614 was preserved...
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (category Defunct Virginia railroads)
of well known passenger trains including the George Washington, Fast Flying Virginian, Sportsman, Pere Marquette, and Resort Special.[citation needed]...
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C&O station hosted daily trains headed northwest, west and east: Fast Flying Virginian (west to Cincinnati, and sections east to Washington, D.C., and...
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the wreck of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's Fast Flying Virginian (FFV) near Hinton, West Virginia in 1890. The song's earliest documented appearance...
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and New Orleans) also served the station. C&O trains included the Fast Flying Virginian, George Washington and Sportsman. The C&O dropped Union Station...
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video game Fairfield–Vacaville station, Amtrak station code FFV Fast Flying Virginian, a defunct American passenger train Fly540, a Kenyan airline Ford-Utilimaster...
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Richmond Main Street Station (redirect from Main Street Station (Richmond, Virginia))
Chesapeake and Ohio trains west to Louisville, Cincinnati and Detroit: Fast Flying Virginian George Washington Sportsman Seaboard Air Line (and from 1967 to...
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State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved August 5, 2011. "Fast Flying Virginian (F.F.V.)"....
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early 1960s the following named trains served the station daily: Fast Flying Virginian (west to Cincinnati, and sections east to Washington, D.C., and...
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coffee, and draft beer, while Nourish 513 serves sandwiches, salads, and fast food. The Rookwood tea room is operating as a Graeter's ice cream location...
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Ronceverte station (category Former railway stations in West Virginia)
in 1932, it did stop at Ronceverte in its final years after the Fast Flying Virginian was discontinued in 1968.[citation needed] By 1944, only ten trains...
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Ohio's Fast Flying Virginian passenger train was westbound from Washington, D.C., when it hit a small rockslide just east of Hinton, West Virginia. The...
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Colonial (Amtrak train) (redirect from Virginian (Amtrak))
Charlottesville–Newport News sections of the George Washington and Fast Flying Virginian / Sportsman, plus a Newport News–Richmond trip. Amtrak kept only...
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years several C&O trains served a different station in Portsmouth: Fast Flying Virginian (west to Cincinnati, and sections east to Washington, D.C., and...
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United States – near Hinton, West Virginia, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the eastbound Fast Flying Virginian struck a rockslide on the tracks,...
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about the train wreck of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's Fast Flying Virginian near Hinton, West Virginia on 23 October 1890 and "John Hardy Was a Desperate...
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Sportsman (train) (category Passenger rail transportation in Virginia)
daylight hours. And the opposite was the case with the C&O's FFV or Fast Flying Virginian, which had a similar route, excepting the Detroit assignment of...
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[1938] 1932-1948 Fast Flying Virginian (later FFV) Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio New York, New York - Cincinnati, Ohio - Norfolk, Virginia - Louisville...
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B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and...
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A flying car or roadable aircraft is a type of vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft. As used here, this includes vehicles...
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Newport News station (category Transportation in Newport News, Virginia)
round trips: the Newport News sections of the George Washington and Fast Flying Virginian/Sportsman, plus a Newport News-Richmond trip. Amtrak kept only one...
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After Dark (software) (redirect from Flying toasters)
included screensaver modules is Flying Toasters, which featured 1940s-style chrome toasters sporting bird-like wings, flying across the screen with pieces...
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September 21, 1952 Making Work Easier color 10m 1963 video [570] Making Work Faster color 10m April 11, 1963 Making Yourself Understood: Introduction to Communication...
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Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern...
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The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) name was...
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unique elements of each variant and/or design stage of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces and other...
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In Christianity, the Nativity Fast—or Fast of the Prophets in Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church—is a period of abstinence...
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