Rail took a while to reach Northern Virginia. The railroad first reached Washington, DC in 1835, but it would be another twenty-six years before the line was extended across the Potomac.
A plan to purchase a historic Shenandoah Valley rail line that includes developing a trail moved forward on Tuesday, after ...
Washingtonians in 1860 could take trains directly to Baltimore and from there to Philadelphia, Harrisburg, or the trans-Appalachian West. A journey from Alexandria to Richmond, however, required a ...
The Virginia Department of Transportation stunned Virginia's transportation community by proposing a plan last Tuesday to ...
ON BOARD THE SANTA TRAIN — Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa’s arrival. Not in a sleigh on their rooftops, but on a train. The Santa ...
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is turning to an agency veteran as Virginia's next secretary of transportation: Nick Donohue, a Richmond-based consultant who has served under ...
Some Portsmouth leaders, including Mayor Shannon Glover, are trying to derail a proposed CSX train expansion that could clog ...
Building a high-speed rail system is a matter of putting in place a large number of individually small, if expensive, improvements that gradually add up to the ability to regularly - and reliably - ...
SUSSEX COUNTY, Va. — A tractor-trailer hauling potato chips was struck by a Norfolk Southern train on Sunday after becoming stuck on the railroad tracks at the crossing of General Mahone Highway and ...