by James Ritch | Sep 23, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Parksley officials approved a letter of support for NYP&N RR, Ltd., whose principals want to organize a rail bike excursion from Parksley to Bloxom. Rail biking is riding pedal-powered machines on railroad tracks that have no train traffic. It is...
by James Ritch | Mar 18, 2021 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — A working group was formed recently to promote and support development of a 50-mile hiking and bicycling trail along the Eastern Shore’s railroad line, where the last train ran in 2018. The trail is planned to eventually extend from Cape Charles to...
by James Ritch | Feb 27, 2020 | Features
By Carol Vaughn . An old railroad depot near Greenbackville that played a role in the first railroad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore is in danger of being demolished. . Chincoteague Bay Field Station, a marine science education consortium in Wallops, has an agreement with...
by James Ritch | Sep 4, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — A Pennsylvania expert thinks it will cost nearly $539,000 to repair the railroad tracks between Parksley, where massive Associated Grain silos sit beside the defunct line, to Hallwood, for a seven-mile hike. That’s about six times less than...
by James Ritch | Sep 4, 2019 | Features
Submitted Article and Photos – Times are changing in Cape Charles. There’s downtown renewal, a surge in tourism, and the beach draws ever more bathers. And then there is the railroad. Cape Charles was created by the railroad and sustained by it for most of the...
