Peninsula Extension
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The Peninsula Extension which created the Peninsula Subdivision of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was the new railroad line on the Virginia Peninsula from Richmond to southeastern Warwick County. Its
The Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway led to Hampton Roads at Newport News, Virginia where West Virginia coal was loaded aboard colliers and shipped worldwide.
The C&O railway station on the Peninsula Extension of the railroad at Norge in James City County, Virginia was a community focal point. Seen here in 2005 preserved but in disuse, the following year it was relocated to public property nearby where work began for it to be reopened as museum.
Lee Hall in 1983, during service as a stop on Amtrak's Colonial.
Collis Potter Huntington
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Collis Potter Huntington was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four tycoons of western railroading who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific
Collis P. Huntington, c. 1872 by Stephen W. Shaw
CSX (the former C&O Railway) Huntington Division Headquarters, with a statue of Collis P. Huntington by Gutzon Borglum in the foreground.
Share of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad Company, issued 18 August 1882, signed by Huntington
Huntington in later life.