Farmville & Powhatan RR

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Thanks Tom, Norris 
 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:30:38 -0800
From: tomscatco at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Farmville & Powhatan RR
To: railcow at msn.com

Norris,
 
The Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette, Nov/Dec 1996 has an article on this railroad. "Tired and Weary, the Tidewater & Western Railroad and its Predecessors" by Garth Groff of Charlottesville. Photographs and maps are featured.
 
 
 
 
 
Tom





From: NORRIS DEYERLE <railcow at msn.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 5:14 PM
Subject: FW: Farmville & Powhatan RR







 



From: railcow at msn.com
Subject: FW: Farmville & Powhatan RR
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:14:22 -0500




FYI, 

>From the NWHS Mailing List. Thought that you would find this very interesting. 

Norris Deyerle
BRC, NRHS
Lynchburg, Va.  
 
 



Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:22:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Farmville & Powhatan RR
To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org



>From Poor's Manual of Railroads, 1890,pg. 618:




FARMVILLE AND POWHATAN RAILROAD COMPANY.


Line of Road. -- Bermuda, Va., to Farmville, Va. ............................ 91 miles.
Eppes' Falls Branch: Coalboro, Va., to Eppes' Falls, Va .................. 8 miles.
Total length of lines .............. . .......................... ............ . . . . . . .99 miles.


Gauge, 3 feet. Rail (steel, 65 miles), 35 lbs.


History. -- Organized March 10, 1884, to build an extension from a junction with the Bright Hope Ry. to Farmville, Va., a distance of 64 miles. Track laying began May 18, 1889, and at the close of that year 39 miles were completed. On July 23, 1889, the company purchased at foreclosure sale for $200,000 the line and property of the Bright Hope Ry. Co., extending from Bermuda to Eppes' Falls, 32.75 miles. Early in 1890 the line was opened from Sunnyside to Farmville, thus forming it through line from Bermuda to Farmville. (For history of the Bright Hope Ry. Co., see MANUAL for 1888, page 561, and MANUAL for 1889, page 551). 


Rolling Stock, Operations, etc. -- Not reported.


Financial Statement. -- Capital stock authorized (par, $100), common, $500,000; preferred, $500,000; funded debt authorized, $320,000 6 per cent. coupon bonds and $500,000 2d mortgage income bonds -- total stock and bonds authorized, $1,820,000.


Dlrectors. -- Joseph Hobson, Rock Castle, Va.; John H. McRae, McRaes, Va.; W. S. Archer, F. D. Hill, Richmond, Va.; John Gilliam, Lee's Landing, Va.; W. H. H. Thaxton, Farmville, Va.


Joseph Hobson, President ................................. Rock Castle, Va.
Secretary & Treasurer -- Geo. M. Wilson, Richmond, Va.
General Manager --James R. Werth ..... Richmond, Va.
Principal Office And Address ................. 703 E. Main St., Richmond, Va.


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Poor's Manual of the Railroads, 1918, pg. 1267.


Tidewater and Western RR. -- Bermuda to Farmville, Va., 89.14 m.; Coatboro to Winterpock, Va. 2.34 m.; Phaup to Moseley, Va., 0.60 m.; Chester to Atlantic Coast Line RR. Junction, 0.46 m. -- total, 92.54 miles. Sidings, etc., 9.43 miles. Gauge, 3 ft. Rail, 35 and 40 lbs.


History. -- Chartered in perpetuity, June 30, 1905, under the laws of Virginia, as successor to the Farmville and Powhatan RR. Co., whose property was sold under foreclosure June 7, 1905 (see Manual for 1905, page 257).


Receivership. -- On application of the stockholders and directors, Langbourne M. Williams was appointed receiver of the company on May 14, 1917.


Dismantled. -- In June, 1918, the property was dismantled (see Manual for 1917, page 178).


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Bruce in Blacksburg



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