Virginia Southern Railroad
The Virginia Southern Railroad (reporting mark VSRR) is a shortline railroad division of the North Carolina and Virginia Railroad (reporting mark NCVA), a subsidiary of the Genesee & Wyoming, with rights to operate 78 miles (126 km) of track between Norfolk Southern Railway connections at Oxford, North Carolina and Burkeville, Virginia. The southernmost segment between Clarksville, Virginia and Oxford is out of service.
The line was built by the Oxford and Clarksville Railroad, Clarksville and North Carolina Railroad, Atlantic and Danville Railway, Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad, and Richmond and Danville Railroad, all predecessors of the Southern Railway (except for the short piece of A&D, which left the Southern system for the Norfolk and Western Railway),[1] and in November 1988 successor Norfolk Southern leased it to the new Virginia Southern Railroad as the first spin-off in its Thoroughbred Shortline Program.[2]
The NCVA and VSRR were previously owned by Railtex and RailAmerica, and is now operated by the Buckingham Branch Railroad.
See also
- Genesee & Wyoming
- Thoroughbred Shortline Program
References
- ^ Interstate Commerce Commission, 37 Val. Rep. 1 (1931): Valuation Docket No. 556, Southern Railway Company et al.
- ^ Edward A. Lewis, American Shortline Railway Guide, 5th Edition, Kalmbach Publishing, 1996, pp. 226, 323
External links
- Official website
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- Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway
- Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad
- Alexander Railroad
- Atlantic and Western Railway
- Blue Ridge Southern Railroad
- Caldwell County Railroad
- Cape Fear Railways
- Carolina Coastal Railway
- Carolina Southern Railroad
- Chesapeake and Albemarle Railroad
- Clinton Terminal Railroad
- CSX Transportation
- Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
- Laurinburg and Southern Railroad
- North Carolina Railroad
- North Carolina and Virginia Railroad
- Nash County Railroad
- Norfolk Southern Railway
- State University Railroad
- Thermal Belt Railway
- Virginia Southern Railroad
- Winston-Salem Southbound Railway
- Wilmington Terminal Railroad
- Yadkin Valley Railroad
- See also: Former carriers in North Carolina
- List of United States railroads by political division
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