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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.

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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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