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Abutment
In engineering, abutment refers to the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam whereon the structure's superstructure rests or contacts.
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ALCO S-2 and S-4
The ALCO S2 and S4 were diesel electric switchers produced by ALCO and Canadian licensee Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW).
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Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American Locomotive Company
The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy.
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Amusement park
An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.
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Aqueduct Bridge (Potomac River)
The Aqueduct Bridge (also called the Alexandria Aqueduct) was a bridge between Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and Rosslyn, Virginia.
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Arcadia Publishing
Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.
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Arlington Boulevard
Arlington Boulevard is a major arterial road in Arlington County, Fairfax County, and the independent City of Fairfax in Northern Virginia in metropolitan Washington, DC, United States.
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Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia, often referred to simply as Arlington or Arlington, Virginia.
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Ashburn, Virginia
Ashburn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Atlantic Seaboard fall line
The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works
The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1956.
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Baldwin-Westinghouse electric locomotives
Baldwin, the locomotive manufacturer, and Westinghouse, the promoter of AC (alternating current) electrification, joined forces in 1895 to develop AC railway electrification.
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Ballston, Arlington, Virginia
Ballston is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia and is home to the Ballston-MU station on the Orange Line and the Silver Line of the metro system.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.
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Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.
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Battle of Vienna, Virginia
The Battle of Vienna, Virginia was a minor engagement between Union and Confederate forces on June 17, 1861, during the early days of the American Civil War.
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Beam bridge
Beam bridges, also known as stringer bridges, are the simplest structural forms for bridge spans supported by an abutment or pier at each end.
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Blue Ridge Mountains
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range.
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Bluemont Junction Trail
The Bluemont Junction Trail is a rail-trail in Arlington County, Virginia that the Arlington County government constructed along a former branch of the defunct Washington and Old Dominion Railroad.
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Bluemont, Virginia
Bluemont is an unincorporated community village in Loudoun County, Virginia located at the base of Snickers Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountain.
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Broad Run (Loudoun County, Virginia)
Broad Run is a tributary of the Potomac River in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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Burlington Junction Railway
The Burlington Junction Railway is a Class III short line railroad which was chartered in 1985.
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Burlington, Iowa
Burlington is a city and the county seat of Des Moines County, Iowa, United States.
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Cargill
Cargill, Incorporated is an American privately held global corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Cargo
In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.
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Catoctin Mountain
Catoctin Mountain, along with the geologically associated Bull Run Mountains, forms the easternmost mountain ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are in turn a part of the Appalachian Mountains range.
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Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway
The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway, also known as the CRANDIC is a Class III railroad operating in the US state of Iowa.
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Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was a Class I railroad formed in 1869 in Virginia from several smaller Virginia railroads begun in the 19th century.
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Clarendon, Arlington, Virginia
Clarendon is an urbanized, upper-class neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia, located between the Rosslyn area and the Ballston area.
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Clarke's Gap
Clarke's Gap, also known as Clarks Gap, is a pass through Catoctin Mountain west of Leesburg, Virginia.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Colin H. Livingstone
Colin H. Livingstone was an American railroad executive and first president of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
Columbia, formerly Wright's Ferry, is a borough (town) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg on the east (left) bank of the Susquehanna River, across from Wrightsville and York County and just south of U.S. Route 30.
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Corporation
A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
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Custis Trail
The Custis Trail is a hilly, paved bicycle trail in Arlington County, Virginia that extends from Key Bridge at Rosslyn westward to the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail.
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Davis Elkins
Davis Elkins (January 24, 1876 – January 5, 1959) was a United States Senator from West Virginia.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Diesel engine
The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).
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Difficult Run
Difficult Run is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Direct current
Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.
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Doodlebug (rail car)
In the United States, doodlebug or hoodlebug is a name for a type of self-propelled railcar most commonly configured with both a passenger and freight compartment.
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Dunn Loring, Virginia
Dunn Loring is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
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Electric power conversion
In electrical engineering, power engineering, and the electric power industry, power conversion is converting electric energy from one form to another such as converting between AC and DC; or changing the voltage or frequency; or some combination of these.
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Electrical substation
A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system.
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Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.
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Electro-Motive Diesel
Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry.
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EMD SW1
The EMD SW1 is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Corporation (later Division) between December 1938 and November 1953.
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Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a predominantly suburban county — with urban and rural pockets — in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Fairfax, Virginia
Fairfax, colloquially known as Central Fairfax, Downtown Fairfax, or Fairfax City, and officially named the City of Fairfax, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Fairmont, West Virginia
Fairmont is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, United States.
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Falls Church, Virginia
Falls Church is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Flickr
Flickr (pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting service and video hosting service.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad
The Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad (FJ&G) was formerly a 132-mile steam engine and electric interurban railroad that connected its namesake towns in east central New York State to Schenectady, New York.
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Four Mile Run
Four Mile Run is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Fuel oil
Fuel oil (also known as heavy oil, marine fuel or furnace oil) is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue.
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GE 44-ton switcher
The GE 44-ton switcher is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Electric between 1940 and 1956.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.
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GenOn Energy
GenOn Energy, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, United States, was an energy company that provided electricity to wholesale customers in the United States.
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Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)
Georgetown is a historic neighborhood and a commercial and entertainment district located in northwest Washington, D.C., situated along the Potomac River.
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Gilbert Vanderwerken
Gilbert Vanderwerken (5 February 1810 – 22 January 1894), originally from Albany, New York, was most notably recognized for introducing the omnibus, an urban version of the stagecoach, in Newark, New Jersey, in 1826.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Goose Creek (Potomac River tributary)
Goose Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad
The Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad (GF&OD) was an interurban trolley line that ran in Northern Virginia during the early 20th century.
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Great Falls Park
Great Falls Park is a small National Park Service (NPS) site in Virginia, United States.
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Great Western Railway of Colorado
The Great Western Railway of Colorado operates about of track in Colorado and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the BNSF Railway.
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Hamilton, Virginia
Hamilton is a town in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.
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Hampshire County, West Virginia
Hampshire County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.
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Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway
The Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway consists of a portion of Interstates 95 and 395 in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Herndon Depot Museum
The Herndon Depot Museum, also known as the Herndon Historical Society Museum, is located in the town of Herndon in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Herndon, Virginia
Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area of the United States.
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Hopper car
A hopper car (US) or hopper wagon (UIC) is a type of railroad freight car used to transport loose bulk commodities such as coal, ore, grain, and track ballast.
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Horsepower
Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power (the rate at which work is done).
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.
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Hume School
The Hume School is an 1891 former school building in the Arlington Ridge neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Interstate 395 (Virginia–District of Columbia)
Interstate 395 (I-395) in Washington, D.C., and Virginia is a spur route of Interstate 95 (I-95) that begins at an interchange with I-95 in Springfield and ends at an interchange with U.S. Route 50 in northwest Washington, D.C. It passes underneath the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol and ends at a junction with U.S. Route 50 (US 50) at New York Avenue, roughly north of the 3rd Street Tunnel.
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Interstate 66
Interstate 66 (I-66) is an Interstate Highway in the eastern United States.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
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Interurban
The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.
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Iowa
Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.
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Iowa Traction Railway
The Iowa Traction Railway Company, formerly the Iowa Traction Railroad Company, is an electrically operated common carrier railroad running between Mason City and Clear Lake, Iowa, United States, and also serving Rorick Park near Mason City.
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Jefferson Davis Highway
The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, was a planned transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Arlington, Virginia, and extended south and west to San Diego, California; it was named for Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, United States senator, and Secretary of War.
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John R. McLean (publisher)
John Roll McLean (17 September 1848 – 9 June 1916) was the owner and publisher of The Washington Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Junction (rail)
A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.
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Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway
The Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway was an interurban electric railway that ran between the American cities of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, between 1914 and 1963.
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Key Bridge (Washington, D.C.)
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, more commonly known as the Key Bridge, is a six-lane reinforced concrete arch bridge conveying U.S. Route 29 (US 29) traffic across the Potomac River between the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, and the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Completed in 1923, it is Washington's oldest surviving road bridge across the Potomac River.
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Lee Highway
The Lee Highway was a national auto trail in the United States, connecting New York City and San Francisco, California via the South and Southwest.
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Leesburg, Virginia
Leesburg is a historic town within and the county seat of Loudoun County, Virginia.
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Lewis McKenzie
Lewis McKenzie (October 7, 1810 – June 28, 1895) was a nineteenth-century politician, merchant and railroad president from Virginia.
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Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
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Loudoun County, Virginia
Loudoun County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.
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Manassas Gap Railroad
The Manassas Gap Railroad (MGRR) ran from Mount Jackson, Virginia, to the Orange and Alexandria Railroad's Manassas Junction, which later became the city of Manassas, Virginia.
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Manassas, Virginia
Manassas (formerly Manassas Junction) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Marymount University
Marymount University is a coeducational, four-year Catholic university with its main campus located in Arlington, Virginia, United States.
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Mason City, Iowa
Mason City is a city in and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
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Matildaville, Virginia
Matildaville was a town located along the Patowmack Canal in the present day area of Great Falls, Virginia, United States.
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Milk
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals.
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Mineral County, West Virginia
Mineral County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Mount Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Henry County, Iowa, in the United States.
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Mount Vernon Trail
The Mount Vernon Trail (MVT) is a paved bicycle and pedestrian path in Northern Virginia between Rosslyn and George Washington's home at Mount Vernon.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Norfolk Southern Railway
The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States.
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Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia – locally referred to as NOVA – comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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Northern Virginia trolleys
The earliest electric railway, or streetcar line, in Northern Virginia opened in 1892.
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NOVA Parks
NOVA Parks (formerly named Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority) is an inter-jurisdictional organization that owns and operates more than 10,000 acres of woodlands, streams, parks, trails, nature reserves, countryside and historic sites in Northern Virginia in the United States.
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Ogden, Utah
Ogden is a city and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Overhead line
An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.
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Paeonian Springs, Virginia
Paeonian Springs is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.
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Passenger
A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle.
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Pier (architecture)
A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.
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Potomac River
The Potomac River is located within the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and flows from the Potomac Highlands into the Chesapeake Bay.
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Potomac Yard
Potomac Yard was one of the busiest rail yards on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
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Presley Marion Rixey
Rear Admiral Presley Marion Rixey (14 July 1852, Culpeper, Virginia – 17 June 1928) was a Surgeon General of the United States Navy (1902–10) and personal physician to Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Purcellville Train Station
Purcellville Train Station is a historic railway station located at Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia adjacent Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail.
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Purcellville, Virginia
Purcellville is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Railroad switch
A railroad switch, turnout, or points is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such as at a railway junction or where a spur or siding branches off.
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Railroad tie
A railroad tie/railway tie/crosstie (North America) or railway sleeper (Britain, Ireland, South Asia, Australasia, and Africa) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks.
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Railway electrification system
A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.
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Reston, Virginia
Reston is one of the leading "New Town" planned communities in the United States.
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Richmond and Danville Railroad
The Richmond and Danville Railroad (R&D) Company was a railroad that operated independently from 1847 until 1894, first in the U.S. state of Virginia and later on of track in nine states.
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Right-of-way (transportation)
A right-of-way (ROW) is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land.
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Robinson Terminal
Robinson Terminal Warehouse LLC is a warehouse and logistics company based in Springfield, Virginia.
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Rosslyn, Virginia
Rosslyn is a heavily urbanized unincorporated area in Northern Virginia located in the northeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, north of Arlington National Cemetery and directly across the Potomac River from Georgetown and Foggy Bottom in Washington, D.C. Rosslyn encompasses the Arlington neighborhoods of North Rosslyn and Radnor/Ft.
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Round Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia
Round Hill is a town in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.
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Shenandoah River
The Shenandoah River is a tributary of the Potomac River, long with two forks approximately long each,U.S. Geological Survey.
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Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
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Shortline railroad
A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks.
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Snickers Gap
Snickers Gap, originally William's Gap, is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountain on the border of Loudoun County and Clarke County in Virginia.
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Southern Railway (U.S.)
The Southern Railway (also known as Southern Railway Company and now known as the current incarnation of the Norfolk Southern Railway) is a name of a class 1 railroad that was based in the Southern United States.
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Station master
The station master (or stationmaster) is the person in charge of a railway station, particularly in the United Kingdom and many other countries outside North America.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Steeplecab
In railroad terminology, a steeplecab is a style or design of electric locomotive; the term is rarely if ever used for other forms of power.
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Stephen Benton Elkins
Stephen Benton Elkins (September 26, 1841January 4, 1911) was an American industrialist and political figure.
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Sterling, Virginia
Sterling, Virginia is a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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Strasburg, Virginia
Strasburg is a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States, which was founded in 1761 by Peter Stover.
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Switcher
A switcher or shunter (Great Britain: shunter; Australia: shunter or yard pilot; United States: switcher, switch engine, or yard goat, except Pennsylvania Railroad: shifter) is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been brought in, and generally moving railroad cars around – a process usually known as ''switching'' (USA) or shunting (UK).
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Tank car
A tank car (International Union of Railways (UIC): tank wagon) is a type of railroad car (UIC: railway car) or rolling stock designed to transport liquid and gaseous commodities.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Trail
A trail is usually a path, track or unpaved lane or road.
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Train station
A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.
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Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
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Transmission line
In communications and electronic engineering, a transmission line is a specialized cable or other structure designed to conduct alternating current of radio frequency, that is, currents with a frequency high enough that their wave nature must be taken into account.
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Trestle bridge
A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used both as stools and to support tables at banquets.
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Trolley park
In the United States, trolley parks, which started in the 19th century, were picnic and recreation areas along or at the ends of streetcar lines in most of the larger cities.
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U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a major north–south U.S. Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States.
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U.S. Route 15
U.S. Route 15 (US 15) is a -long United States highway, designated along South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.
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U.S. Route 29 in Virginia
U.S. Route 29 (US 29) is a major north–south route in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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U.S. Route 50 in Virginia
U.S. Route 50 (US 50) is a transcontinental highway which stretches from Ocean City, Maryland to West Sacramento, California.
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
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Union Station (Ogden, Utah)
Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center.
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United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States.
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Utah Central Railway (1992)
The Utah Central Railway is a shortline railroad serving Ogden, Utah and surrounding areas.
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Vienna, Virginia
Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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Virginia State Route 244
State Route 244 (SR 244) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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Virginia State Route 309
State Route 309 (SR 309) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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Virginia State Route 7
State Route 7 (SR 7) is a major primary state highway and busy commuter route in northern Virginia, United States.
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Volt
The volt (symbol: V) is the derived unit for electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force.
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Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park
The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park is a linear regional park in Northern Virginia.
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Washington Boulevard (Arlington)
Washington Boulevard is a road in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Washington Union Station
Washington Union Station is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters and the railroad's second-busiest station with annual ridership of just under 5 million.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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West Burlington, Iowa
The City of West Burlington is in Des Moines County, Iowa, United States, adjacent to the City of Burlington located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_and_Old_Dominion_Railroad
