The South Via The Virginia Midland Route

Author : Virginia Midland Railway
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ISBN 13 : 9781332125821
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Excursion Guide of the Virginia Midland Railway written by Virginia Midland Railway and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Excursion Guide of the Virginia Midland Railway: The Short-Line Through-Car Route Between the North and South, the Virginia Springs, Western North Carolina and North Georgia Summer Resorts The aim of this publication is to give the reader, in brief space and compact form, some idea of what the Virginia Midland Railway presents in its course from the capital of the nation to its terminus at Danville, on the border of North Carolina. First, to show that the Midland Railway is the natural and proper outlet of that huge volume of travel which the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroads pour into Washington City. Second, to demonstrate (as the schedules appended to this volume prove) that it is the Short Line, par excellence, of travel traffic from North to South, and vice versa. Third, to establish beyond dispute, that no other route to the great watering places of Virginia and the sublime scenery of Western North Carolina can compete with the Virginia Midland Railway. Fourth, to place in clear light before the reader of whatever character tourist, health-seeker, investor, miner, farmer - the attractive nature of a route which, from beginning to end, pursues the beautiful and airy uplands that lie at the base of the Blue Ridge and other Virginia mountains. The physical features of this region so blessed of heaven, its history, its battlefields, its water-courses, its farming lands, its pastures and meadows, its mines, minerals and ores, its towns and villages, its industries, its orchards and its vineyards - in brief, all that pertains to its past and present, or at least so much of it as may be compressed into a half an hour's reading on the train or at the station, will herein be found. From Washington we go to Alexandria, there to muse a while amidst the ancient churches and storied dwellings that tell of Washington and his compeers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.