Switching on the Virginia Blue Ridge

Switching on the Virginia Blue Ridge

By Angela Cotey | March 24, 2022

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Ex-Army 0-6-0 No. 7 of short line Virginia Blue Ridge switches covered hopper cars at Dominion Minerals’ plant at Piney River, Va., in the early 1960s. VBR dieselized with SW1s in 1963.
William E. Warden Jr. photo

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