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2 unusual facts about Bay Coast Railroad


Bay Coast Railroad

The railroad's co-founder, coal magnate William Lawrence Scott, financed construction of the new town of Cape Charles in 1884 at the point where the railroad's northern section met the Chesapeake Bay.

In an effort to preserve freight rail service on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Northampton and Accomack Counties formed the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission.



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