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Iron Horses in the Valley The Valley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads 1866-1882
Iron Horses in the Valley The Valley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads 1866-1882 By John R. Hildebrand
Soft Cover
Copyright 2001
128 pages indexed
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations and Maps vii
Acknowledgments ix
Author's Personal Note xi
I. The Genesis of the Valley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads 1
II. Big Lick Forever? 14
III. A History of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, 1867-1882 19
IV. A History of the Valley Railroad, 1866-1881 47
V. Building the Valley Railroad, Staunton to Salem 68
Appendix: Valley Railroad Atlas and Photographs, Lexington to Salem 89
Notes 117
Bibliography 122
Index 125
ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Fort Defiance Depot 4
Bridge over Middle River 4
Bridge over Mill Creek 5
Lexington Station and Depot 5
Thomas A. Scott 8
John Work Garrett 8
William Mahone 8
William Milnes, Jr. 26
Frederick J. Kimball 31
Shenandoah Valley Construction Train34
1881 Shenandoah Valley Railroad Stock Certificate 44
Old 199 56
Engineers in Camp71
Claibourne Rice Mason74
Making an Embankment80
Building a Masonry Arch81
Walker May 85
Valley Railroad, Lexington to SalemAppendix,105-16
MAPS
Virginia Railroads, 1872 9
Alternate Routes, Shenandoah Valley Mainline into Big Lick and Bonsack40
Valley Railroad Atlas, Lexington to SalemAppendix, 91-103
ON THE BACK COVER:
Iron Horses in the Valley is the story of two Virginia railroads, the Valley and the Shenandoah Valley, organized in 1866 and 1867, respectively. Each company's purpose was to provide reliable rail transportation for the agricultural and manufactured products of the Shenandoah Valley, thereby facilitating its recovery from the economic devastation of the Civil War. In the course of organizing, the Shenandoah Valley made an alliance with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Valley made an alliance with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Iron Horses in the Valley provides a history of these railroads from the granting of their charters until 1882. Each history describes the activities of the men who organized, planned, financed, and constructed each railroad; the reasons one succeeded; the reasons the other failed; and finally, the impact their competition had on the development of the Roanoke Valley and the transformation of the village of Big Lick into Roanoke, the Magic City.
Many outstanding and influential men played significant roles in the activities of the two railroads. Included were General Robert E. Lee, Colonel Michael G. Harman, William Milnes, Jr., Frederick J. Kimball, Claibourne R. Mason, and John C. Moomaw. An atlas of the unfinished construction of the Valley Railroad between Lexington and Salem is provided, consisting of maps and photographs. The atlas is supplemented with descriptions of its builders and the 19th-century construction methods they used.
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