A Journey Through Alphabet Soup; 1997
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0023
- Title
- A Journey Through Alphabet Soup; 1997
- Description
- Thomas Ledford offers a history of the railroad companies that ran through or influenced Lynchburg, and Lynchburg’s early efforts to take advantage of railroads despite the strong opposition by canal advocates. Lynchburg influenced the Civil War because of their railroad strengths, but experienced the devastation of the railroads by the war’s end. Changes in the railroads after the Civil War included the move of the railroad center to Roanoke, the 1891 financial panic, and the coming of Amtrak.
- Date
- 6 November 1997
- Creator
- Ledford, Thomas G.
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- Thomas G. Ledfords
- Ledford
- 1997
- L.& N.R.
- Lynchburg and New River Railroad
- George Stephenson
- Charles Carroll
- L.& N. R.
- B&O
- Lynchburg and Tennessee
- Southside Railroad
- William S. Ellison
- Orange & Alexandria
- track gauge
- Virginia & North Carolina
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Virginia Midland & Great Southern Railroad
- Billy Mahone
- Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
- Norfolk & Western Railroad
- N&W
- Lynchburg & Durham Railroad
- J.P. Morgan
- Chesapeake & Ohio
- C&O
- Southern Railroad
- Cotton Mill Trestle
- Chessie System
- CSX
- Amtrak
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- Thomas G. Ledford