Bøker av Paul E McCray Foreword

Washington & Old Dominion Railroad covered therailroad s corporate history, construction, and operation. Thissecond volume expands the coverage with a geographic focus on fourlocations: Rosslyn, Great Falls, Leesburg, and Purcellville. The imageswithin offer a look at the railroad s feed and grain business, railfan-typeviews of equipment, and a visual record of methods used to maintainthe right-of-way and place equipment back on the tracks. Additionally, this work offers a history of the conversion of the right-of-way into thevery popular Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park.Learn about the history of mills and their place in the local economy.See how the Burro crane was a jack of all trades. Look under the hoodand inside the cab to imagine what it was like to be an engineer onone of the railroad s Baldwin-Westinghouse electric freight locomotives."