Virginia Central Railroad
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 101 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5087-8963-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Virginia Central Railroad was an early railroad in the U.S. state of Virginia that operated between 1850 and 1868 from Richmond, Virginia westward for nearly 200 miles to Covington, Virginia. Originally chartered as the Louisa Railroad in 1836 by the Virginia Board of Public Works, it was renamed as the Virginia Central Railroad in 1850. For most of its existence, the railroad was led by president Edmund Fontaine, who had also served as president of the earlier Louisa Railroad. The Virginia Central 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. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная...
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