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 Sewalls 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.
Jarratt
The Virginian carried a modest amount of freight, much of it interlined with other carriers. At the small town of Jarratt, the Virginian crossed the double-tracked north-south speedway of the Atlantic Coast Line. In addition to the freight handling, new steam locomotives built in Richmond were delivered via this connection. There was also a siding there that would hold a 190 car train.
In 1907, when passenger service began being developed, Jarratt was the first depot. It was located about 0.6 miles to the east of here where the tracks intersected.
This is a small cache, so BYOP and please return it to the same hiding location as you found it.
As of 6/15/23 the other caches in this series:
GCA597G - VGN Oak Hill
GCA9XGY - VGN Mullens
GC9QN0G - VGN Elmore
GCA9XGF - VGN Matoaka
GC9PYFJ - VGN Princeton
GC9QN0F - VGN Glen Lyn
GC9VBX3 - VGN Narrows
GCA1TF6 - VGN Merrimac
GCA484C - VGN Roanoke
GCA4DAG - VGN Victoria
GCA1MJB - VGN Suffolk
