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Virginian Railway, The By H Reid SOFT COVER MAP
The Virginian Railway By H Reid
SOFT COVER
Copyright 1961.
208 Pages Fold out MAP.
Contents
The Beginning------10 An Age And The Mountains . . . Colonel Page, A Man Of Vigor . . . A Name Is Chosen . . . The Mill . . . Fido . . . Rogers The Man . . . Rogers . . .The Businessman . . . Fooling Competitors . . . Hoodwinking Ends . . . Rogers Outplayed
Early Days------18 The First New Engines . . . The Ma's . . . Construction And Disaster . . .Rough, But Smooth . . . Coal Reaches Norfolk . . . Leased Engines . . . A Stranger And West Virginia's Beauty . . . The Moonshine Bar Of Matoaka Gap . . . Luck Of The Irish . . . Snake In The Grass, Twice . . . The Eight-Wheelers . . . Featuring Henning Fernstrom . . . Peonage
Virginian Is Formed -----28 First Stock Meeting . . . A Surprising "No" . . . Jamestown Exposition . . . Teddy's In Form . . . The Man In White . . . The Crowd Off Historic Sewalls Point . . . Putting Victoria On The Map . . . Inspection Trip . . . More Passenger Engines . . . Tidewater Trouble Spots . . . The Feud Smoulders . . . Express Bids . . . Holdup . . . Phone Dispatching
The Rogers Era - -----38 Loan And Rumors . . . Bets And Upping Stock . . . What 1909 Brought . . . The Coal Pier . . . How Things Stood . . . Celebrating . . . A Fateful Day . . . Rogers Mourned
Growth-------44 Sa's, The First Switchers . . . Mb, Engine Extraordinary . . . Mb At Work . . . Colorful Timetable . . . Timetable Details . . . The Coming Of The Mallets . . . The Virginian's Navy . . . Forerunner Of The U.S.R.A. Mallet . . . The Rains Came . . . The Mc's . . . New Power Available . . . Clinchfield And Virginian, Similar Roads
Teen Years------56 The First Tragedy . . . Who Was At Fault? . . . Skinned . . . Buffalo Bill's Last Show . . . The Worst Winter At The Coal Pier . . . The 2-10-10-2's . . . Best Man . . . The Triplex . . . A Puzzle . . . Big Cars . . . First "Merger" . . . The Undelivered 900's . . . A Standard Is Set . . . The Teen Decade
Those Glorious 1920's----68 One Minus One Equals Two . . . Rogers' Yacht Had Seen Better Days . . . Enter The Pa's . . . Record Run . . . The Errant Caboose . . . Another Long Train . . . No Ifs Nor Butts . . . The Shop Strike . . . The Enginemen's Strike . . . Life In A West Virginia Work Gang . . . A Misunderstanding . . . The Sliding Fill . . . A Stolen Ride Pays Off . . . The Electrics . . . Powerhouse . . . Steam-Electric Duel . . . Big Man, Little Man . . . First Merger Talks . . . Merger Defeated . . . The End Of The Twenties
Hard Times ------84 Temper Cooled . . . Sister Baby And The Num-Num Botty . . . Chit'lings . . . Depression Brings Scrapping . . . The Railway's Baseball Team
The 1930's And Early 1 940's ---88
Usc And Usd Modifications . . . Modernized Mc's . . . A Herald Is Designed . . . Finances . . . Suffolk Rescues The Sa's . . . Living Is Good . . . The 800 At Stewartsville
World War Ii------96
Pearl Harbor . . . Wartime Help . . . Facing Cold Coal Facts . . . Teamwork . . . The Ag's . . . B. Moore's Corny Remedy . . . Virginian's Most Dramatic 19 Order
Postwar Developments----104
Spring Came Early . . . The Ba . . . From The Used Locomotive Lot . . . The Timetable Makes It "Official" . . . Peanut Fire . . . Those Who Still Rode . . . The El-2b's . . . Secondhand Switchers . . . A Love Story . . . Armchair Railroading . . . Cooperative Efforts . . . Interlude At Loop Junction
Comes The End - -----120
Why The Diesels . . . Glamour's End . . . Changes In Suffolk . . . Diesels' Effect On Victoria . . . Down For The Count . . . The Last Passenger Run . . . Mb Again . . . New Electrics . . . Roy Jackson Dobbins And The 251 . . . Times Change . . . Somebody Cared . . . End Of The Line . . . The Proud Virginian Name
A Virginian Pictorial----134
Locomotives Of The Virginian Railway -170
A Historical Chronology, 1 898-1959-192
Index --------203
Map And Profile -- Fold-Out Facing 208
The birth to merger tale of the unique coal hauler a millionaire built from West Virginia to the sea.
WHAT was the Virginian Railway?
It was men. It was machines. It was money to keep them both going.
The Virginian was built early in the twentieth century from the West Virginia coal fields to the Virginia coast because one man, Henry Huttleston Rogers, had foresight-and cash, too. Rogers was the Virginian, although he may not have been the absolute creator. He built the coal-hauler with his own money. He gave it the best equipment that his money could buy. He hired talented men. Rogers' activity was unusual in transportation annals and will never be duplicated. He wanted a railway, so he reached into his pockets and built it, keeping firmly in mind the axiom of the shortest distance between two points being a straight line. Mullens, Princeton, Roanoke, Victoria and Norfolk - they were the principal stations. In between were such communities as Lively, Coy, Fagg, Briery, Nutbush, Dolphin, Tinkling, Magnolia and Sunray. There was even one hamlet that may never be cited in volumes on manners, Lick Fork. When colorful designations were exhausted, Virginian men named stations for themselves. Adsit, for example, honored S. M. Adsit, general passenger agent. Huttleston was Henry Rogers' middle name.
Yet the Virginian was built by the legions of men who never had towns named for them. The Virginian was a product of their hopes, their disappointments, their toil, their shortcomings, their pranks, their mistakes, their very lives.
The Virginian combined the dramatic and the trivial in its makeup and here, then, is how it happened - its high moments in text and pictures, its condensed corporate developments and its genealogy of locomotives.
The Virginian was a Real Railroad, one of immense equipment and wealth and just as rich in the vital human element.
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