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64 pages, softbound, Many photos, maps, and other illustrations. The VAL was a 28-mile short line connector between C&O’s Rivanna Subdivision (James River Line) and the near Bremo, Va. and the Piedmont Subdivision near Gordonsville. It was used for trains headed to/from Washington to avoid steep Mountain Subdivision grades, also for high-and-wide loads. Abandoned in 1975, it largely has been forgotten since. – This book gives the complete story of this little-known C&O line that was important in the full picture of its freight service.
64 pages, softbound, Many photos, maps, and other illustrations. The VAL was a 28-mile short line connector between C&O’s Rivanna Subdivision (James River Line) and the near Bremo, Va. and the Piedmont Subdivision near Gordonsville. It was used for trains headed to/from Washington to avoid steep Mountain Subdivision grades, also for high-and-wide loads. Abandoned in 1975, it largely has been forgotten since. – This book gives the complete story of this little-known C&O line that was important in the full picture of its freight service.
