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Danville Traction & Power Co By Francis Tosh 1973
Danville Traction & Power Co By Francis Tosh
Copyright 1973
20 pages
Soft Cover stapled
Photos, fold out map, rosters. This booklet covers the story of the entire history of street railway operation there from its beginnings in 1886 to its conversion to motor bus operation in 1938.
Danville, located in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and noted for its cotton mills and tobacco markets, and for "The Wreck of Old 97", had a most interesting little trolley system. This is a brief history of its operation.
Danville in 1886 was a busy town of about 10,000 persons, located on hills on either side of the Dan River. This river had been dammed to provide water power to operate cotton gins and other machinery; there were a series of these buildings, known as the Riverside Cotton Mills. Tobacco auction buildings, warehouses, and factories occupied space on many streets near the river. Main Street, running approximately north and south, crossed the river via a covered bridge.
Danville was the junction point of the Richmond and Danville Railroad from Richmond to Greensboro, N.C., with the Virginia Midland Railway from Lynchburg. These were reorganized as the Southern Railway in 1894. The narrow gauge Danville & New River Railroad, completed to Martinsville in 1881, entered Danville from the West, using a third rail on the Richmond & Danville Railroad's main line from its junction three miles south of the city. The narrow gauge line was reorganized as the Danville & Western Railroad in 1891, and soon after 1900 both became a Southern Railway subsidiary and had its gauge changed to standard. In 1890 an additional railroad, the Atlantic & Danville Railway, was completed from Norfolk; it became part of the Southern Railway in 1900.
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