Talk:Virginian Railway

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Gerard: Thanks for adding the VGN herald.

Our VGN yahoo group is very active and if you do not already belong, you may wish to check us out at the link at bottom of Virginian Railway page.

Mark Fisher (vaoverland)Vaoverland 08:37, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Some millionaires are wealthier than others

re: Virginian_Railway#A_partnership:_The_idea_man_from_Ansted_meets_a_millionaire This sentence: "He was also a very wealthy millionaire."... just struck me as funny. Was Huttleston Rogers a multimillionaire perhaps? I'd strike very wealthy but that's just me. Anyone know how much he was worth at various points? ++Lar: t/c 15:57, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

You have a point. I'll see about changing that wording to avoid the redundancy. Vaoverland

Good article

I'm delisting this as a good article because of POV issues (for instance "In a classic story of business intrigue" and "Fortunately, Henry Rogers recovered his health") and crufty information about mailing lists. --NE2 01:37, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:S VGN System Map Dec 1954 large.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

No external links to discussion forums, please

I have removed external links to discussion forums requiring registration, as they are a violation of WP:EL. -- HarveyHenkelmann (talk) 02:15, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose that the article Building the Virginian Railway be merged into Virginian Railway. I don't think the building article is significant enough (level similar to construction of the Transcontinental Railroad) to have its own article. Most other descriptions of railroads' constructions are in sections, not a different article. If the article gets to be merged, the history section of the VGN article mustn't be massive as well. TheGGoose (talk) 16:44, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

The merged page idea makes sense but both articles have issues with lack of any substantive support for the statements they make concerning the origin of the Deepwater/Virginian Railway. Researchers are finding new source documents that, hopefully, will unravel the mysteries of the road. There has been a considerable amount of myth, speculation and gossip written about the origins. Much of it repeated as gospel truth. Until this research is finished and the results published, I would ask readers to consider with a bit of skepticism a lot of these "origin" statements. The truth will be more interesting than the myths. TWS 50.150.247.118 (talk) 16:05, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Article About Electrification

Here's a link to an article about the electrification of the Virginian. https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/33774/OS_ENG_v09_i02_011.pdf?sequence=4 173.216.206.160 (talk) 16:37, 2 July 2023 (UTC)