Railway Facilities.
NO COUNTY in Virginia has better facilities for transportation.
The Chesapeake and Ohio, east and west,
and the Virginia Midland north and south, give every
portion of the county; excellent facilities for shipping, while
the southern limits of the county are served by the Richmond
and Alleghany. The Chesapeake and Ohio and the
Virginia Midland form a junction at Charlottesville, the centre
of the county, (where is located the handsomest and best
Union depot in Virginia), thus affording our citizens direct
and competing through communication with the vast net work
of railways which cover this country from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from the Gulf to Maine.
Our county roads are already in good conditions, but the
work of improvement, which was begun years ago, will go
on until our highways are unsurpassed.
We are next door, so to speak, to all the good markets of
the seaboard, and in the centres of dense population. Grapes
and all perishable fruiis, gathered in the afternoon, can be
placed on the stands in New York by 6 o'clock the following
morning, and other markets can be reached with equal promptness.
Express is received and forwarded by every passenger
train; we have four mails daily from Washington and the north,
and three each day from Richmond and from Louisville and the
West. These facilities of communication enable the shipper
to keep posted as to the conditions of the markets.
Freight can be shipped via Virginia Midland to Washington,
the shipper having the choice of routes from the national
capital; or by way of Chesapeake and Ohio to Waynesboro,
thence north by the Shenandoah Valley, or to Staunton, and
continued north by the Baltimore and Ohio; or to Hanover
Junction, and thence by the Richmond and Fredericksburg to
Washington; or by the Chesapeake and Ohio to Richmond,
and thence by York River road to destination; or to Newport
News to the north and by water to New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Providence or Europe, or other foreign countries.
Going west, freight will be sent via the Chesapeake and
Ohio to Cincinnati, and thence by any route to other western
cities.
Going south and southwest, by Virginia Midland to Lynchburg,
thence by Norfolk and Western to destination by way
of Bristol; or to Danville and thence by Richmond and Danville
to destination; or by the Chesapeake and Ohio to
Waynesboro, thence by Shenandoah Valley to Norfolk and
Western; or to Richmond and thence by Richmond and
Danville and Coast Line to destination. A reference to any
railroad map will at once show these advantages and substantiate
our claim of superiority over other counties.
