Railroads -- Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Potomac Yard Collection (MS050)
Collection
Identifier: MS050
Content Description
Records, correspondences, authorizations for expenditure (AFEs), notebooks, ephemera, and blueprints, all documenting the Potomac Yard rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia.
Dates:
1927-2000
Sarah G. Smith vs. Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and the Virginia Midland Railway Company Transcripts (MS239)
Collection
Identifier: MS239
Content Description
This collection consists of two bound transcripts of the court case filed by Sarah G. Smith against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and the Virginia Midland Railway Company.Testimony describes the setting in Alexandria through which the trains pass. The area around the block of Saint Asaph, Wolfe, Pitt and Wilkes Streets are particularly detailed. References are made to the Wilkes Street tunnel and to local businesses including a dairy, and J. C. Herbert Bryant's...
Dates:
1892
Stray Documents, 1865-1914
File — Box 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
This folder contains miscellaneous documents that remain outside the scope of the other series in the collection. It includes an 1871 list of the Board of Supervisors of Oneida County, NY; a playbill for a performance of "The Two Bonnycastles" and "Handy Andy" by the Young Men's Catholic Association at Radford Hall in Yonkers (T. J. O'Sullivan is in the cast of both); a Washington-Virginia Railway Company 52-trip monthly ticket book belonging to one of Daniel's grandson's, J. H. Downey...
Dates:
1865-1914