• The Atlantic and Danville Railway (reporting mark AD) was a Class I railroad which operated in Virginia and North Carolina. The company was founded in...
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    on the Atlantic and Danville Railway. Due to Virginia Law, alcoholic spirits could not be sold on the Atlantic and Danville Railway train within 2 miles...
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    conveyed into the new Southern Railway Company (later the Norfolk Southern Railway) in 1896 and 1897. The new Richmond and Danville Railroad was championed by...
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    Hotel and O.H.P. Tanner House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. La Crosse was a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway. The Virginia...
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    a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway as recently as the 1950s. It is named "Virgilina" because it is located on the Virginia and North Carolina...
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  • List of Class I railroads (category United States railway-related lists)
    Railroad Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Atlantic and Danville Railway Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Auto-Train Corporation Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic...
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    Several railroads reached Danville, including the Richmond and Danville Railroad (completed 1856), and the Atlantic and Danville Railway (completed 1890). These...
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    Emporia, Virginia (category Majority-minority counties and independent cities in Virginia)
    after the Norfolk and Western Railway purchased and reorganized the Atlantic and Danville Railway. Now, a major north–south CSX railway line crosses a Norfolk...
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  • its history as a railroad junction. The Atlantic and Danville Railway used to pass through the community and a wye was located there that connected the...
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  • named Holland.[citation needed] Holland became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway in 1890. On May 21, 1928, the first Ruritan Club in the United...
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  • 31: Norfolk and Western Railway subsidiary Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway acquires the property of the Atlantic and Danville Railway (no longer...
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    costumes, jousting on horseback, and a dinner and dance at the hotel. Jerusalem became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway in 1888, allowing residents...
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  • Light and Power Company Danville Traction and Power Company Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad Hampton Roads Traction Company Lynchburg Traction and Light...
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  • Southern Railway AD Atlantic and Danville Railway → Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway ADBF Adrian and Blissfield Railroad ADIR Adirondack Railway ADN...
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    Franklin, Virginia (category Majority-minority counties and independent cities in Virginia)
    Camp (vice-president) and Robert Judson Camp (secretary-treasurer). Franklin became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway in 1890. At the end of...
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    the town of Claremont became the eastern terminus of the new Atlantic and Danville Railway (A&D), a narrow gauge railroad, which was completed to a point...
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  • the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, both of which later became the main line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. In 1900, the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad...
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    Suffolk, Virginia (category Majority-minority counties and independent cities in Virginia)
    1808. Suffolk became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway in 1890. In 1910, it incorporated as a city and separated from Nansemond County. However...
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    Portsmouth, Virginia (category Majority-minority counties and independent cities in Virginia)
    Portsmouth. 1870 – Population: 10,590. 1890 – Became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway. 1894 – Annexation of portions of Norfolk County North of the...
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    Railway. The railroad has used that name since. Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Railroad (1894) Richmond and Danville Railroad (1894) Memphis and...
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  • Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR) Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (AR) Alexander Railroad (ARC) Atlantic and Western Railway (ATW) Blue Ridge...
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  • original Raleigh and Gaston route from Norlina to Weldon became SAL's Portsmouth Subdivision. In 1967, the SAL merged with its rival, the Atlantic Coast Line...
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    (Chicago-Danville, November 1871), the Evansville, Terre Haute and Chicago Railroad (Danville-Terre Haute, October 1871) and the Evansville and Terre Haute...
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    ALCO RS-36 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1962)
    between February 1962 and August 1963 for seven railroads. Surviving units include: Atlantic & Danville #2, fully restored and owned by the Southern New...
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  • line to Yulee, Florida Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad, Yulee to Jacksonville, Florida Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, Jacksonville...
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    Norfolk, Virginia (category Port cities and towns of the United States Atlantic coast)
    strategic military and transportation point, where many railroad lines started. Norfolk was the terminus of the Atlantic and Danville Railway in 1890. It is...
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    River Railroad, around Charleston Charleston and Savannah Railway, Charleston to Savannah, Georgia Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, Savannah to Jesup, Georgia...
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    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...
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  • into the Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL). The SAL established their headquarters in Richmond, and the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad would become...
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    ALCO RS-2 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1946)
    Delaware and Hudson Railway rebuilt 13 of its RS-2s for passenger service, including on the Laurentian. The D&H added a steam generator and 1,600-US-gallon...
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