The Virginian Railroad
Formed in 1909, the 600 mile Virginian Railroad was created to haul coal from the mines in West Virginia to the ships at the Sewells Point docks in Norfolk, VA which were waiting to carry the coal to foreign ports. It was built through the vision and financial backing of H. H. Rogers, who hired talented people and gave them the best equipment that his money could buy.
The railroad owned 83 freight steam locomotives and nearly 15,000 coal cars. In 1950 the VGN hauled over 28 million tons of coal.
Glen Lyn
The concrete stanchions here are from the 2155 ft long bridge that was the last part of the Virginian route to be completed January 23, 1909. The bridge was about 130 feet above the river.
After the merger with Norfolk & Western on December 1, 1959, the N&W discontinued use of the route and then removed the bridge in 1972. N&W sold a section of its right of way to the state, which is now the eastbound lanes of US 460.
If you walk along the gravel road away from the river, you can see concrete pads that supported the bridge from the stanchions to the roadbed where US 460 is now located.
As usual, please return the cache as you found it and BYOP.
Congrats to seigcat for being the first to find!