• Richmond and Petersburg Railroad moved passengers and goods between Richmond and Petersburg from 1838 to 1898. It survived the American Civil War and...
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    Confederate capital of Richmond. Numerous raids were conducted and battles fought in attempts to cut off the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. Many of these battles...
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    The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (reporting mark RFP) was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. The track is...
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  • Petersburg to open books on the Petersburg Connection Company that connected by rail, the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad to the Petersburg Railroad...
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    The Richmond and Danville Railroad (R&D) Company was a railroad that operated independently from 1847 until 1894, first in the U.S. state of Virginia...
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    The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge was a bridge that carried the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and several later railroads including the Atlantic...
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  • The Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad was a railroad built in the early 1900s. As its name suggests, it ran from Richmond, Virginia south through...
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    of Richmond, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Manchester, Virginia Chesterfield Railroad Richmond and Danville Railroad Richmond and Petersburg Railroad "North...
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  • Railroad Norfolk Street Railroad Radford Water Power Company Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Railway Richmond and Henrico Railway Richmond and Rappahannock River...
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    Carolina Richmond and Petersburg Railroad extending north to Richmond Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (after Sept. 1858) extending east to Suffolk and Norfolk...
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  • Conway Railroad Wilmington, Chadbourn and Conwayboro Railroad Chowan and Southern Railroad Western Branch Railway Petersburg Railroad Greenville and Roanoke...
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    the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad in 1835, and three years later it opened between Petersburg's Pocahontas neighborhood and Richmond's Manchester neighborhood...
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    Petersburg Railroad between Petersburg, Virginia, and a point near Weldon, North Carolina, founded in 1830. A route between Richmond, Virginia, and Petersburg...
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    Moncure Robinson (category 19th-century American railroad executives)
    the Petersburg Railroad, the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, the Winchester and Potomac Railroad, the...
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    offensive against Richmond. After the Civil War, Drewry's Bluff was a stop on the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad between Falling Creek and Kingsland Creek...
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    Railroad; the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad; and the Richmond and Danville Railroad. In addition, the James River and Kanawha Canal ran through it...
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    The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad was built between Norfolk and Petersburg, Virginia and was completed by 1858. The line was 85 miles (137 km) of 5 ft...
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    and strike northwest to Richmond. The objective was not to capture the Confederate capital directly, but to cut the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad—a...
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    Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, running north to south, and the Clover Hill Railroad, which became the Brighthope Railway, then the Farmville and Powhatan...
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    Clover Hill Railroad Company was chartered in 1841 by the Virginia General Assembly to do business with the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad but was not...
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    was established in 1840. Port Walthall was on a Spur of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad from 1846 to the Reconstruction era. The spur was built to...
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    where the coastal plain and the Piedmont come together on the James River at Richmond and the Appomattox River at Petersburg. The English established...
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    Richmond and Petersburg Railroad to the south, initially from Manchester. The predecessor to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad was complete...
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    Byrd Street Station (category Buildings and structures in Richmond, Virginia)
    was a railroad station in Richmond, Virginia. Originally established in 1887 as a joint project between the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and the Richmond...
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    Richmond and Petersburg Railroad (later Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) tracks (now abandoned) on a high trestle between what is now Clopton Street and...
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    Railway Illinois Terminal Railroad Lawrenceville Branch Railroad Memphis and Charleston Railroad Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Norfolk Southern Railway...
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  • railroad line ran east to intersect with the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. This bridge was burnt in 1909 and its remnants were finally removed in 1948...
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    Richmond to Petersburg connecting with the Petersburg Railroad. After the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad was completed, the Richmond and Petersburg...
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    including iron works and flour mills, in the South and the country. By 1850, Richmond was connected by the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad to Port Walthall...
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    CSX A-Line Bridge (category Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad)
    completed in 1877. The Richmond and Petersburg was chartered in 1836 and ran from Richmond to Petersburg, where the Petersburg Railroad took travelers further...
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