The Virginian Railway

Historical information

Henry Huttleston Rogers Industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the VGN

William Nelson Page Civil engineer, builder of the VGN

Historymania

Introduction to the Virginian Railway (N&W Historical Society)

Henry Huttleston Rogers Vintage articles

Equipment Roster (date unknown)

Virginian Railroad in Virginia

The Augmented Virginian Railway A Sidetrack Look at the Railroad's Footprints in History

Bio on H. Reid Author of the classic book The Virginian Railway

Deep Water to Deep Water A Time Magazine article from 1935

The Virginian Today

Railfanning Today's Virginian Railway A guide to railfanning the Norfolk Division from Victoria to Roanoke

Virginian's People Former Employees of the VIRGINIAN RAILWAY

Terry Hodges Site

Sequence showing the fall of the former Princeton, WV Shops of the Virginian Railway

Rails in Virginia

Photos

Winding Gulf Coal Fields Photos and information on several coal towns served by the VGN.

Dave's Photo Page

Railpictures.net Has many vintage photos, several VGN

VGN Caboose Page

Fallen Flags

G Gerards Collection

Donnie Biggs Current VGN Railway Photos

Live Search Maps Satellite photos, this site can provide some great views of surviving VGN trackage

Rule Book

Signal Aspects from the VGN Rulebook Dated June 1, 1943

Video

NS on the ex-Virginian trestle at Covel, W Va

NS circus train on Garwood trestle

Books currently in-print

Virginian Railway in Color

Books out-of-print

Note: Many of these are still available from the N&W HS Commissary or services like eBay and Bookfinder.com

H. Reid The Virginian Railway

H. Reid Norfolk and Western and Virginian Railways in Color

Wiley and Wallace's Virginian Handbook

Lloyd Lewis's Virginia Era

Lloyd Lewis's Virginian Railway Locomotives

Virginian Rails 1953-1993 (1st ed.) by Kurt Reisweber, ISBN 1-879314-11-8

Internet Mailing Lists and Forums

Virginian Railway Enthusiasts (Yahoo)

Model Railroads

The Model Railroad of Aubrey Wiley: Portraying the Virginian, C&O and N&W railroads in August 1954

Videos of Aubrey's Layout

Mike Dodd's Virginian Railway

Appalachian Railroad Modeling

Bill Loop's O/S gauge pike - Nice models of company houses and a mine (may require Trains.com registration)

Model of a Coal Tipple (from the Pennsylvania & Western web site)

A coal mine and details for the HO scale Turtle Creek Central

Appalachian & Ohio An O scale freelanced coal hauler set in West Virginia

Model Railroaders Guide to Coal Railroading (book)

Railfanning the (model) Virginian

Great Decals! A source for VGN decals

Chesterfield Hobbies Another source for decals

Index of VGN magazine articles

O Gauge Toy Trains

Other

GIFs of VGN equipment for web pages

Lionel Trains Horizontal Rules Great GIF files of Lionel Equipment, includes VGN

Looking Back "Friends of VIRGINIAN RAILWAY at Milepost 2007" Event

Eckley Miners Village On-line tour of a restored miners village in Pennsylvania, site of the film The Molly Maguires

Kaymoor Mine Detailed drawings of a mine on the C&O

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